Unless you really trust those people, save your money. It just moves the problem to a different location. You have to control (or trust) the endpoints of a VPN before it gives you true security.
If a third party involvement is a must, onion-routing (eg: https://www.torproject.org/) is one way to go. It's not perfect, but the de-centralization makes it harder for someone in the network to turn on you. There used to be a program called "Torpark" (you should still be able to find it) that would allow you to use the Tor network easily with the Firefox browser. Unfortunately, they changed their name to xB browser (aka ZeroBank, 0B, XeroBank) and you now have to have a paid account to use it. Seems like that kind of defeats the purpose to me. Anyway, onion-routing has its own issues, like speed, and some services (eg: Wikipedia) refuse to accept connections from them, but that's another story. George On 12/24/07, Mark Passerby <caves...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Something to consider is a personal VPN at $40 a year seems like a good > deal http://www.witopia.net >
