Btw, here's a good resource for reviews and news about vpns: http://torrentfreak.com
-peter On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 11:15 AM, dragorn <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 04:00:34PM -0500, 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 > > > > > Agreed. I've run openvpn on AWS and more recently on digital ocean, > happily. > > The question of what you're protected against depends what you > consider your threat to be. > > If you need to be globally anonymous, you've probably already lost. > If you're doing any sort of connections to any of your normal > accounts, using the same browser, etc, you're leaking metadata out the > other end of the VPN all over the place. > > If you want to bypass ISP deep-packet inspection (throttling netflix, > etc), or secure yourself against local snooping (open wifi, traveling > overseas, etc), a VPN is a great solution, and running your own on a > droplet or aws instance or whatever is a great way to do it. > > Running on DO or AWS also gets you *local* anonymous access. No-one > on a local wifi (ie at a convention etc) is going to be able to map > YOU to that IP. Amazon/DO/Feds can, but that's probably not your > threat model. > > -m > > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > >
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