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Hello guys
I have bad news, it has happened. Today in the morning law enforcement came to my home asking questions about suspicious activity on rented servers running under my name. They also froze my Apple developer account. I didn‘t tell and show them anything. But I guess my service is no longer safe to use and I‘ll shutdown and delete the servers later. Don‘t know what this means for SwizzVPN in the future, but I guess I‘m gonna retire from this business.
Thanks for all your support
I have bad news, it has happened. Today in the morning law enforcement came to my home asking questions about suspicious activity on rented servers running under my name. They also froze my Apple developer account. I didn‘t tell and show them anything. But I guess my service is no longer safe to use and I‘ll shutdown and delete the servers later. Don‘t know what this means for SwizzVPN in the future, but I guess I‘m gonna retire from this business.
Thanks for all your support
Wow that's absolutely amazing. I always wondered about this. My work - we used to house an SFTP server that was used all over the world by 20-30k people. Eventually it was getting hammered by bots from China, Canada, Russia so often that we even had the FBI showing up at the door wondering what was going on. lol.
I can't imagine that happening at my home.
Always wondered how the big VPN companies do it - say a nefarious customer uses my VPN servers to hack a State Government or steal money from a bank - everything would point back to my VPN servers. I guess even in Switzerland, the police would have to at least do something.
Sorry to hear - and hopefully this wasn't your primary source of income. I can't imagine all the things you learned doing this (jealous). I'm very happy to have been a very small part of it. Thanks for being active on Macrumors. That breed of developer is rare today.
Just submitted a new SwizzVPN update, but for now with only access to Switzerland server.
Other locations are soon coming back.
Update on law enforcement: They just confirmed that they couldn‘t find any data on the servers at all. This is due to not logging anything and also shutting the servers down, so no active connections could be looked at. So everything‘s safe
EDIT: Again due to law restrictions, unfortunately I have to disable TV channels on the next update. If you still want/need it, PM me for more info.
Update on law enforcement: They just confirmed that they couldn‘t find any data on the servers at all. This is due to not logging anything and also shutting the servers down, so no active connections could be looked at. So everything‘s safe
EDIT: Again due to law restrictions, unfortunately I have to disable TV channels on the next update. If you still want/need it, PM me for more info.
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Why are we back to only having Switzerland as the only option to connect? The previous update allowed for USA.
I also noticed that you stopped noting what the update involved. Saying minor fixes doesn’t fly, especially when the update is removing a feature, which isn’t the first time such hasn’t been reported in the update description. You need to stop doing that. I consider that lazy and shady practice.
I also noticed that you stopped noting what the update involved. Saying minor fixes doesn’t fly, especially when the update is removing a feature, which isn’t the first time such hasn’t been reported in the update description. You need to stop doing that. I consider that lazy and shady practice.
Didn't change anything, still the same (about half of servers are online). Try to hit the refresh button in server list.
Minor fixes refers to internal code optimizations or other smaller UI related fixes which aren't noticable, or when I just need to change the App Store description, that also needs a new build.
Which feature did I remove?
Minor fixes refers to internal code optimizations or other smaller UI related fixes which aren't noticable, or when I just need to change the App Store description, that also needs a new build.
Which feature did I remove?
Next update 4.0.0 features an overhauled SwizzTube and it brings back 1 free server.
Glad to see this app continue on!
Feature request (unless it’s already in there and I missed it): allow manual reordering of the “Favorite Locations” list.
As of now, it appears that the list order can only be determined by the order the favorites are added in (with the latest Favorite going at the top of the list).
Feature request (unless it’s already in there and I missed it): allow manual reordering of the “Favorite Locations” list.
As of now, it appears that the list order can only be determined by the order the favorites are added in (with the latest Favorite going at the top of the list).
@Silverstring: Thanks for the feature request. Currently it gets sorted alphabetically. I made a small fix so that they get added in the order favs are added in (like you just stated). I'll look into a "edit and rearrange" feature in the future.
Very nice!!! Getting them back. Hope you’re doing well? Work has been super busy for me - may do some work related travel here in a week. Will make sure to use your VPN
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Yeah I'm fineVery nice!!! Getting them back. Hope you’re doing well? Work has been super busy for me - may do some work related travel here in a week. Will make sure to use your VPN
Just submitted first version of SwizzVPN for tvOS to App Store, let's see if it gets approved. Hope SwizzVPN works good for you when you travel 
Quick question. Now it's available on TVOS17, does this VPN have split tunneling?
Saw your answer on the other thread, didn't know about that feature! Currently not, but I will look into it, sounds good. Shouldn't be hard to implement it.
I will check out your service tonight....I believe using the USA server should suffice for Amazon, Paramount + and my other online TV services while keeping my location and information encrypted.
Nice to hear! BTW I just tried NordVPN and ProtonVPN on my iPhone but I couldn't find a setting where you can select Apps or Websites to not go through the VPN. Where can I find it? May you send me a screenshot?
Is SwizzVPN for Apple TV a separate purchase? I tried tapping on restore purchase and it doesn't appear to be doing anything.