Serious Message to users of HMA

I would of honestly made this a lot sooner, but I thought everyone already knew, but after talking to some people in the forum and on certain discord servers I'm apart of, I've learned that people don't actually know this about HMA.

In the past HMA has been known to give out data to the government, and has (and still does) state that HMA does not condone or allow any sort of illegal activities.

The last (and greatest) known case of this was several years ago, when they gave over information about members of the LulSec hacking group. {you can read some extra information about that here, and on their blog post here)}

For me personally, that is enough to not trust the company, but there is some more, and I will link to some more sources down below.

On that blog post as mentioned before,this is one of the things that they stated
"Our VPN service and VPN services in general are not designed to be used to commit illegal activity. It is very naive to think that by paying a subscription fee to a VPN service you are free to break the law without anyconsequences. This includes certain hardcore privacy services which claim you will never be identified, these types of services that do not cooperate are more likely to have their entire VPN network monitored and tapped by law enforcement, thus affecting all legitimate customers."


So they clearly state that they will work with the government if requested to help and take down people who are using their services for illegal action.

(read here for information about someone getting a email from HMA threatening to turn him into authorities for torrenting off of piratebay)

There's a couple more things that I feel should be mentioned about HMA.

The parent company of HMA is called Privax, somewhere around 2015, AVG(The company that owns Avast!) acquired Privax & HMA,
So, this means that things could have changed on how they handle user data, however AVG itself does not have a very good track record, (I mean seriously, Avast is a piece of shit.) so it easily could be that they are still doing it, but maybe just in a bit of a quieter manner.

I feel as though bestvpndeals.com did a pretty good job of portraying HMA. (which you can read here)

This is really something that you have to take at your own discretion, for me, however my data is handled needs to be extremely private and secure, and I have to have 100% trust in the company that I am using.



I hope that this post has been helpful and informative to... well... someone out there...

If you have anything you would like to contribute to this post feel free to do so!


LIST OF SOURCES

I may update this with some more information soon, also might review some more VPNs

What exactly is HMA? Im a little confused about this topic.

legit buy a vps for $5 a year and setup your own vpn. if you use a vpn providor, you shouldn't expect to be anon.

13-05-2018, 01:58 AM

appleoper Wrote: What exactly is HMA? Im a little confused about this topic.

A VPN company HMA = (HideMyA**)

I indeed to use HMA as it works the fastest. As long as you dont do too much illegal ur fine

That's true but I think that when you offer a privacy service you shouldn't keep logs and neither monitor users aside anonymous data collection in order to keep the service running, and at the time of the Lulzec fact they blatantly lied on their terms and conditions. All this fact aside you should avoid like the plague VPN providers legally registered in the USA because willingly or unwillingly they will give your data away especially if you are a US citizen. Same goes for EU residents using VPN providers in the EU with the exception of Sweden (because of the local privacy law.
What's important is to always read the TOS and the privacy policy of the various providers and check to what law they answer to. Nowadays almost all VPN prviders will write "We keep no logs BUT...."
That BUT is how they stick it in your BUTT



Best thing is to connect first to a proxy and/or Tor and then register and use the VPN paying in crypto. If they don't accept crypto just avoid them and save the website so that when you will be angry about something you will have a legit target to put your anger on filling their support inbox of dick pics :cool: