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nordvpn.com
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nordvpn.com is the company blog at nordvpn.com, writing about security. Since 2015, 77 different Hacker News readers have linked it 91 times, most often “Binary memory protection measures and why it is important”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Rarely recommended · 1 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers mostly cite NordVPN's blog as a source for VPN, privacy and security topics, including its own responses to breaches and lawsuits, Tor, net neutrality and new protocol launches.
- Recommended for · 1 comments
- One commenter says the blog makes good points in its response to an article about privacy.1
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /blog/official-response-datacenter-breach/5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2019-10-21
- /blog/torguard-lawsuit/4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-06-04
- Binary memory protection measures and why it is important4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-12-18
- The NordWhisper protocol – a step towards a more open internet3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-01-29
- NordVPN's certificate is suddenly untrusted3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-11-10
- /blog/ios-vs-android-security/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-02-08
- Tutorial on Sync MySQL Data to Google BigQuery Using Debezium and Kafka Connect3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-01-29
- /meshnet/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-04-16
- /white-label/2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-06-19
- What is a Libdrop and how does NordVPN utilize it?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-04-24
What Hacker News says?
NordVPN blog post, and the source: https://nordvpn.com/blog/official-response-datacenter-breach...
Comment linking /blog/official-response-datacenter-breach/
on “NordVPN confirms it was hacked”Submitted Farewell to Meshnet as a story · 74 points
HN discussionhttps://nordvpn.com/blog/official-response-datacenter-breach...
Comment linking /blog/official-response-datacenter-breach/
on “NordVPN confirms it was hacked”Submitted Threat Protection: NordVPN's techniques for safe browsing as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThey did already: https://nordvpn.com/blog/official-response-datacenter-breach...
Comment linking /blog/official-response-datacenter-breach/
on “NordVPN confirms it was hacked”Submitted NordVPN Released New Mac OS App as a story · 5 points
HN discussionAfter reading their blog post about it [ https://nordvpn.com/blog/official-response-datacenter-breach... ], I'm not as concerned. A compromise is a compromise, don't get me wrong, but it can happen to absolutely anyone. If you're paying ~$5/month for anonymous browsing with unlimited bandwidth, then you're probably not getting top tier security researchers running your servers.
Comment linking /blog/official-response-datacenter-breach/
on “NordVPN confirms it was hacked”Submitted WireGuard and the Art of Nat Traversal as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThey were leaked on March 2018 [0][1], and they expired on October 2018 [2]. [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20180504001844/https://8ch.net/b... [1] https://nordvpn.com/fr/blog/official-response-datacenter-bre... [2] https://crt.sh/?id=10031443
Comment linking /fr/blog/official-response-datacenter-breach/
on “NordVPN confirms it was hacked”Submitted Threat Protection: NordVPN's anti-phishing feature as a story · 3 points
HN discussionNordVPN just posted this a few minutes ago: https://nordvpn.com/blog/official-response-datacenter-breach...
Comment linking /blog/official-response-datacenter-breach/
on “NordVPN confirms it was hacked”Submitted Tutorial on Sync MySQL Data to Google BigQuery Using Debezium and Kafka Connect as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThey clearly put a lot of effort in cleaning the mess, as I later discovered myself by being from the same city: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18611863 It seems very likely now, that ProtonMail just decided to use NordVPN's white-label solution to bootstrap its ProtonVPN business: https://nordvpn.com/white-label/
Comment linking /white-label/
on “Mozilla VPN”Submitted Leveraging Debezium and Kafka Connect to Transfer MySQL Data to Google BigQuery as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThere are many VPN services that begin just by reselling white-label VPN solutions, such as provided by NordVPN[1], because it's much cheaper and easier than building your own globally distributed high-capacity and low-latency network. I hope that Mozilla didn't go down this route, as many suspect ProtonVPN did[2], which Mozilla has partnered in the past with[3]. In fact, given that partnership I wouldn't be surpris…
Comment linking /white-label/
on “Mozilla VPN”Submitted How to Sync Data from MySQL to Google BigQuery Using Debezium and Kafka Connect as a story · 3 points
HN discussion>Net neutrality has little to do with censorship, and more to do with extortion. "From the consumers’ point of view, net neutrality is a guarantee that all connections are treated equally and ISPs won’t censor the internet." https://nordvpn.com/blog/net-neutrality-pros-and-cons/ " Some notable incidents otherwise have included Bell Canada's throttling of certain protocols and Telus's censorship of a specific website…
Comment linking /blog/net-neutrality-pros-and-cons/
on “YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud”Submitted Binary memory protection measures and why it is important as a story · 3 points
HN discussionCan you clarify with examples/technical description how an open platform will be able to review & fix privacy/security issues like this more easily/faster? As far as I know this wouldn't be news on Android because such permissions are granted as a matter of course without review. Keep in mind that most people use the Google or Samsung stores which aren't open platforms for verifying permissions aren't misused. For w…
Comment linking /blog/ios-vs-android-security/
on “Apple allows some iOS apps to track user locations via lists of nearby SSIDs”Submitted What's the difference between observability and monitoring? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI was actually just trying to make a (poor attempt at a) joke. Honestly, I don't really know, or care, how Signal works. I have no respect or interest in using any service which requires a cellphone to use it by fiat. I don't really have any great concern about the government requesting my information, not because I "don't have anything to hide" or "because I'm too boring to care about" but simply because I don't ca…
Comment linking /blog/nation-state-threat-actors/
on “Twilio incident: What Signal users need to know”Submitted Exploring WireGuard’s NAT traversal capabilities as a story · 3 points
HN discussionProtect your privacy with a VPN, either run your own or use one of the available providers. It's a shame you need to do this, but that's just the state of things. Run your own with OpenVPN: https://openvpn.net VPN providers(not affiliated, just ones myself or colleagues use): https://www.expressvpn.com https://www.goldenfrog.com/vyprvpn https://nordvpn.com
Comment linking /
on “Britain passed the “most extreme surveillance law ever passed in a democracy””Submitted Connect devices securely with Meshnet – NordVPN as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNordVPN - Internet unlocked... on Mars https://nordvpn.com/blog/how-did-we-unblock-the-internet-of-...
Comment linking /blog/how-did-we-unblock-the-internet-of-mars/
on “List of April Fools' Day Announcements”Submitted How the first "cyberattack" looked 200 years ago as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI think this router+dd-wrt supports it though I haven't personally used vpn on it. Here is the link that implies it supports it: https://www.myopenrouter.com/articles/r6300r6300v2-guides-ho... . Some general information about the router is at: https://wiki.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Netgear_R6300v2 . Edit: another link: https://nordvpn.com/tutorials/dd-wrt/flashrouters-privacy-ap... .
Comment linking /tutorials/dd-wrt/flashrouters-privacy-app/
on “D-Link Home Routers Open to Remote Takeover Will Remain Unpatched”Submitted The NordWhisper protocol – a step towards a more open internet as a story · 2 points
HN discussionTelegram rolled their own crypto and is used for a lot of intelligence operations like monitoring dissident groups, promoting propaganda, recruiting agents, etc. That probably explains the push to discredit more private apps like Signal. Researchers of Telegram's protocol have said in some ways it's weaker than TLS. E.g. - https://www.wired.com/story/the-kremlin-has-entered-the-chat... - https://therecord.media/tele…
Comment linking /blog/is-telegram-safe/
on “Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure”Submitted NordVPN for macOS: Release Notes as a story · 2 points
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