I've been using ivpn.net for a while now. I've been mostly pleased. An annual subscription is $100, so < $9/month.
The last time I checked, it didn't look like my external IP address was changing, even after a reconnect. That's a mixed blessing, as connections are more stable but anyone watching that IP can easily piece together a profile, even if they can't find your actual IP address. As far as how much I trust them to actually _protect_ my identity or actual source address - I wouldn't do anything over the connection that police or the NSA might be inclined to look at. Maxim Shkurygin wrote: > I'm using OpenVPN Access Server on my digitalocean node. It's only > $5/month, really easy to set up, and its client supports Windows, Mac and > iPhone (not sure about android). Unless hiding your ip address is that > important to you, I don't think it's worth paying for vpn service. > > Here's how easy it is to set it up > https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-openvpn-access-server-on-ubuntu-12-04 > > - Max > > > On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Chris Knadle <[email protected]>wrote: > > > On Thursday, February 27, 2014 11:00:02 John Mort wrote: > > > So first I watched this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37nfG8m0Xz > > > And experienced the requisite outrage at how ISPs mess with your > > connection > > > and such. > > > > Speaking of ISPs messing with your connection, I cannot /directly/ view the > > above link -- I get a YouTube page showing "This video does not exist" > > with a > > frown face. However, after viewing the link /below/ on YouTube, I found > > the > > videos shown at the end, and the top-left video is ... the one at the > > /above/ > > link, I'm able to play it, and sure enough it's the same link. Hmmmm! :-/ > > Very odd. > > > > > Then I watched this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx3LRfE-XiI > > > And learned how a VPN can improve your connection at home and secure your > > > connection in public wifi.. > > > > > > Now I'm considering this: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/ > > > > > > Up to now, I've always just run an SSH tunnel to my machine at home in > > > order to be able to browse securely. Lately though, that connection has > > > been pretty crappy. > > > > Supposedly there are 200 Gbps - 400 Gbps DDoS attacks going on with the > > 'net > > right now, and I think there are a number of odd things having to be done > > to > > try to mitigate them. Bandwidth amplification via NTP is one of the root > > causes lately. Whether this could be affecting your ISP and your > > particular > > connection... unknown. I had some odd issues with my ISP lately where all > > connections were very slow, so I shut down NTP on the router and we called > > to > > discuss it, and soon after things were fast again. They said we'd have to > > plan to reset our cable modem once a week (?!?) but didn't say why. > > > > > I'm not sure if my machine, my router, or my ISP is to > > > blame. But between the increase in security, the potential increase in > > > performance, and the fact that it would only cost $40/year to have > > someone > > > else manage something like this for me even if I only use it when my home > > > system is down for some reason, I'm tempted. > > > > > > Here's my question, how do you evaluate the security of buying a VPN > > > service from someone else? My emotional reaction to using a service like > > > this is that they could be snooping on all my traffic, but not using a > > VPN > > > this risk certainly exists with my ISP snooping on all my traffic. > > > > Regardless of VPN or not I'd be sending my mail via ESMTPSA -- that is, > > sending my mail via SMTP AUTH over TLS. These days it's often the case > > that > > mail transfers can end up all being over TLS such that the transfers are > > all > > encrypted end-to-end. Usually not true for mailing lists though. > > > > > How do you determine who is less untrustworthy? Does anyone here use > > > a service like this? > > > > I don't but I've been considering them; common recommendation but I didn't > > realize you could end up getting a bandwidth /speedup/ from using one. > > > > -- Chris > > > > -- > > Chris Knadle > > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > > https://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College > > Mar 5 - 11th Anniversary Meeting - Home Network Show and Tell > > Apr 2 - Nginx: High-Performance HTTP Server, Reverse Proxy, and > > IMAP/POP3 Proxy Server > > May 7 - Google App Engine > > > > > > -- > - Max Shkurygin > > There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what > the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be > replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another > theory which states that this has already happened. > - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy > ============================================================================= michaelMuller = [email protected] | http://www.mindhog.net/~mmuller ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one... - Thomas Paine ============================================================================= _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org https://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College Mar 5 - 11th Anniversary Meeting - Home Network Show and Tell Apr 2 - Nginx: High-Performance HTTP Server, Reverse Proxy, and IMAP/POP3 Proxy Server May 7 - Google App Engine
