Re: Recommendations for a private VPN service

[Zate Berg <zate75 () gmail com>]

Should they also have a strong policy about letting you violate their
TOS and not taking action ? :-P

Your best bet if that is a requirement is to do a colo of a small
server and don't give the colo access.  They are still going to have
physical access of the system and the "man" could come knocking with a
court order asking them to turn it over.

Unless you do something out of the US, your system is ALWAYS going to
be at the mercy of the "man" getting  a court order and accessing your
info.

I have toyed with the idea of creating a hosted system that logs to
/dev/null and doesn't keep a single piece of information about who
logged into the system from where, when.

cloudsigma.com are a pretty good "out of the us" cloud/VPS provider,
you might try one of their cheaper tiers and setup your own.  If you
might be engaging in activities that could get you in trouble, i would
not trust a system built by anyone than yourself so you can be sure
what it's logging, or not logging, and who has access.

Zate



On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 5:24 PM, xgermx <xgermx () gmail com> wrote:
> Thanks for all of the input so far. Keep the suggestions coming.
> <tinfoilhat>
> Also, the ideal service provider should have a very strong policy about not
> turning over my information if questioned. (rules out Amazon, etc)
> </tinfoilhat>
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Dan King <xxsegfaultxx () gmail com> wrote:
> > If you use TOR as a transparent proxy, the speeds you get are much better.
> > The circuits dont get constantly rebuilt.
> >
> > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TheOnionRouter/TransparentProxy
> > You could run a TOR node on a VPS and use the VPS as your VPN
> > concentrator. Then all traffic over the VPN could be then anonymized.
> > I have no experience with any commercial VPN solutions that claim to mask
> > your traffic. I'd be a little suspicious of that honestly.
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Jim Halfpenny <jim.halfpenny () gmail com>
> > wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > Depends what your needs are. TOR offers anonymity at the expense of
> > > speed. SSH tunneling provides point-to-point encryption, as does an
> > > IPSec VPN e.g. FreeS/WAN. There are anonymiser services that offer web
> > > proxies but don't encrypt your traffic. Your goals affect the choice
> > > of solution best for you.
> > >
> > > Jim
> > >
> > > On 30 December 2010 14:41, xgermx <xgermx () gmail com> wrote:
> > > > Can anyone give a recommendations for a private VPN service?
> > > > My goal is to remain anonymous online whilst not sacrificing bandwidth.
> > > > Something like IPREDator, possibly. https://www.ipredator.se/?lang=en
> > > > Google searches for this have proved futile as most results are
> > > > spam/seedy
> > > > companies.
> > > > TIA
> > > >
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