[FRIAM] How I made my own VPN server in 15 minutes | TechCrunch

[Marcus Daniels]

I suggest using Tor.


https://www.torproject.org/about/overview.html.en

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Tor Project: Overview<https://www.torproject.org/about/overview.html.en>
www.torproject.org
Overview. The Tor network is a group of volunteer-operated servers that allows people to improve their privacy and security on the Internet.





With Macports there is an install target `tor' and `torsocks'.   Several Linux distributions have these install targets too


The former, when running, will provide a SOCKS proxy which you can point applications at either by running them inside `torsocks' or by entering in the Tor SOCKS host info for that app.  However, in the case of web browsing, there is already a Torbrowser which is a stripped-down browser designed for safety.


It depends what you want to accomplish.  If you just want to keep well-positioned agents from intercepting your traffic for archival, https everywhere or an encrypted e-mail is a good start fine (Microsoft can provide the latter).   If you want to make it expensive for anyone to identify you, take a look at Tor.   It is also possible to couple a VPN to Tor, in case for some reason there is reason to think there are agents looking for use of Tor from your connection point.   Tor is slow compared to a VPN.


Marcus



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What do you think, folks?  Worth the effort?

https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/09/how-i-made-my-own-vpn-server-in-15-minutes/?ncid=tcdaily
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