However, it covers the most sought-after locations for Danish users, where servers in Denmark in particular are a big plus. TunnelBear has servers in 23 countries and the network is thus not very large. Se summary of the 20 reports here og the 2018 report here. It can therefore be said with great certainty that TunnelBear lives up to the level of security and privacy that they themselves promise. Half a year later in 2017, Cure53 performed a new revision where all the problems had been resolved and Cure53 reviewed again in 2018 TunnelBears systems. Of course it was unfortunate, though TunnelBear took the criticism and did something about the situation. The company Cure53, which specializes in testing the security of websites and online services, conducted a review in 2016 that revealed a number of problematic issues. TunnelBear is one of the few VPNservices that have had their system reviewed by third parties. Here it is the highlighted points that protect the privacy of users. Eventuele informatie over de toepassingen, diensten of websites die onze gebruikers gebruiken tijdens hun verbinding met onze Service.TunnelBear explicitly does NOT collect, store or log the following data: On TunnelBearon its website it is insulated as follows: Therefore, it does not register which files a user downloads, etc.

This means that no data is stored on how far a user has been connected to one TunnelBear VPNserver, nor any websites, services, etc. TunnelBear does not lead logs over users' use of VPNservice, which provides optimal privacy. Because the source codes of the protocols are thus publicly available, they are guaranteed that they do not have built-in master keys, backdoors or the like, which can compromise security and privacy. The standard is 256 bit OpenVPNused on anything other than iOS devices (iPhone and iPad), instead using 256 bit IPSec / IKEv2 (128 bit IPSec on old iOS devices).īoth OpenVPN and IKEv2 are recommended as they are both open source projects. TunnelBear uses one of two encryption protocols: OpenVPN and IPSec / IKEv2.

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