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Thread ID: 129069	2013-01-31 20:32:00	VPN	Sanco (683)	PC World Chat

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1325855	2013-01-31 20:32:00	I came across the VPN in the other thread about piracy and legal repercussions and did a little reading on the net about it. Here is a series of questions on this technology, mostly around your personal experience with them and the suggestions you may have for a neophyte. I have read that the best ones are a fee paying for service, but I have also read that not all non-free ones are as secure as they claim to be - some keep a log of connections for billing purposes, thus defying the very purpose of anonymity right? So my questions are: 1 - Do you use one, and if so which? 2 - Are there any free ones that you'd use yourselves? We do a role play here, then we break for a cup of coffee and when we come back we have a free discussion session where anything goes. :lol: Just being an idiot sorry, I appreciate all your help and input, as always	Sanco (683)
1325856	2013-01-31 20:50:00	I have used a variety of services, Hide my ass is good, as is Witopia. My fav wasn't a VPN, it was an SSH connection to a server in the US hosted by URPad. $5 for a 100mbit connection, dedicated linux box. I found that better because I could use it for all sorts of things other than bypassing internet restrictions. You can configure to host a VPN (I don't think that's outside of their ToS) but it was faster and easier to use SSH.	The Error Guy (14052)
1325857	2013-01-31 21:47:00	Depends on your purpose for a vpn.... Get around geo blocked sites (netflix, hulu etc). StrongVPN etc are good for this (although personally I use unblock-us which is not a vpn. Secure browsing - ie on a public hotspot - I use a VPN server at home for this. Anonymising - I don't have any personal experiences with these services.	psycik (12851)
1325858	2013-01-31 22:18:00	Thanks for sharing your thoughts so far, much appreciated. Keep them coming please.	Sanco (683)
1325859	2013-02-01 03:40:00	Well, depending on your purpose the ARE a lot of factors, eg unblock-us is a DNS changer that makes the connection look like it's from the US but it's not, good for unblocking US only streaming content because the network speed isn't affected by going through a VPN or another computer, a VPN is better for rigorous anonimity and bypassing (such as country wide censorship or blocked content at work/school etc) or even providing a secure connection if you are on an unsecured network (public WiFi etc) and I mentioned what SSH is good for. So unless you have a specific task in mind, we could pretty much work through every major supplier of bypassing/anonimity tools and not really help you very much.	The Error Guy (14052)
1325860	2013-02-01 04:36:00	Yeah fully depends on *why* you want a VPN...	Chilling_Silence (9)
1325861	2013-02-01 19:35:00	Well, when I first discovered these VPN's in the other thread they were mentioned on the basis that one wants complete anonymity and untraceability for example, and I have based my query on that. Sorry if I wasn't clear enough.	Sanco (683)
1325862	2013-02-01 20:23:00	Kind of ... Basically it means anywhere you browse to, your IP shows as a non-NZ IP. However, you're still going to leave "tracks" along the way as you browse websites, your Browsers cookies, things like that. To be honest you'd get better anonymity out of simply browsing in Incognito Mode. Push Ctrl + Shift + N in Chrome.	Chilling_Silence (9)
1325863	2013-02-01 20:29:00	Ok for browsing, but for downloading is a secure way right? That is why my original question was which one do you use and are there any good free ones you'd use if you were me?	Sanco (683)
1325864	2013-02-02 07:40:00	It depends what you are hiding from. As chill said, in most instances (as far as web tracking goes) incognito mode will render you as "unknown" to any websites, since no identifying information is present. If you are hiding from a higher level (such as Govt or other high end type watchdogs, you're going to want a vpn since that will encrypt or hide anything going between you and the server. Of course, what comes out the other end of the pipe is another story. TOR (torproject.org) uses a massive network of encrypted tunnels to distribute your connection for high anonymity, since it's almost like a botnet (run by volunteers all around the globe) none of the output nodes are traceable since any one of any number of private machines can be used. it's also free.	The Error Guy (14052)
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