PIA

[LP]

Never mind found it here
https://support.privateinternetaccess.com/Knowledgebase/Article/View/133



On 1 December 2015 at 11:58, LP <linuxpusher2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Raymond said: "Hi all, PIA advises us that there was a IP address
> vulnerability"
> Was this part of the pop up update I received yesterday ?
> Thanks
>
>
>
> On 1 December 2015 at 09:51, Raymond House <raymondh40 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> OK Daniel and Cranky, thanks for your inputs.I do have the little green
>> guy at the top but on earlier version it did not work that way and yes I
>> installed PIA the same way Cranky.On that earlier version I had to go
>> through the manager to get it working. Anyway, I am doing all my searching
>> now through "Framabee" and I will not resubscribe to PIA. Thanks.
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 8:36 AM, CrankyOldBugger <
>> crankyoldbugger at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> As I understand it, and I recommend that you get a second opinion, if
>>> you have the little green man icon at the top then you're using the PIA
>>> client, but if you connect by going through the Network Manager icon, then
>>> selecting from the VPN list, that this is the OpenVPN client.
>>>
>>> The little green man part I'm sure of, the NM/VPN/OpenVPN part I'm 50%
>>> sure.  So check that.
>>>
>>> I'm assuming that you installed your Linux client the same way I did, by
>>> following
>>> https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/pages/client-support/ubuntu-openvpn.
>>> At some point in that process it does seem to want to install OpenVPN, so
>>> we could be good to go, but I would investigate that further.
>>>
>>> I updated my little green man on my Windows machines, I haven't seen an
>>> update for Linux yet.
>>>
>>> Still, PIA was possibly the first to offer a fix for this security issue
>>> (even though the first fix didn't work), then they followed up with a very
>>> explanatory letter saying that they were wrong and that we should do Fix
>>> #2.  That gives me some comfort knowing that they're on the ball.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, 1 Dec 2015 at 05:06 Raymond House <raymondh40 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all, PIA advises us that there was a IP address vulnerability but at
>>>> the end of the explanation they note that if we are connecting to their
>>>> service with a native Open VPN client there is no client side fix
>>>> required.How do I know if I'm connecting with a native OpenVPN client? Not
>>>> sure what that means.Can anyone clear this up for me, thanks.
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