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Can't bind Proton VPN to qBittorrent on Linux (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by Elarionus@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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I like to run qBittorrent on a Linux laptop to try and minimize the risk of Microsoft tracking what I'm doing and to protect my main system from viruses. I'm having an issue with it though. When I go into Advanced and select Network Interface, Proton VPN is not an option there. I only get lo, eno1, wlp4s0, ipv6leakintrf0, and tun0.

How can I get it to bind to the VPN so that I don't have to worry about it freaking out and sending unencrypted data through qBit?

EDIT: I also tried torrenting Ubuntu and killing the VPN just to test it out. It didn't stop downloading and uploading when I did that.

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[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's actually more complicated than that.

https://www.wired.com/story/protonmail-amends-policy-after-giving-up-activists-data/

As usual, the devil is in the details—ProtonMail's original policy simply said that the service does not keep IP logs "by default." However, as a Swiss company, ProtonMail was obliged to comply with a Swiss court's demand that it begin logging IP address and browser fingerprint information for a particular ProtonMail account.

ProtonMail also operates a VPN service called ProtonVPN, and it points out that Swiss law prohibits the country's courts from compelling a VPN service to log IP addresses.

So ProtonMail is the problematic service, since it can be compelled by courts to log. ProtonVPN cannot be compelled to start logging.

[–] wall_inhabiter@lemdro.id -3 points 9 months ago

Oh yeah I heard that part already, it's more abt the org being compromised. WIRED regularly publishes articles that are clearly in coordination with the state department, by the way.

I'm too noided about this stuff, I have no reason to talk shit about Mullvad other than the locations of their servers and knowing that feds have high level wiretaps at datacenters that pretty much none of us can get around, and I'm still talking shit about them

Go listen to feds talking about their training in "physical penetration" if you want to know more lol. They go brag about this shit