> Automatically connect you to a random VPN in a country of your choice. Why would someone do such a thing?
Some people may use it as free proxies for web scraping.
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#42VPNs are great. Free VPNs from god knows who, are not that great. A VPN is exactly the kind of thing you want to be paying a trustworthy entity for.
or run yourself, you can put openvpn on a $2.50/month debian or centos VPS.
Do check that they have the tun/tap module included on the vps before signing up or open VPN won't work on that vps host.
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or run yourself, you can put openvpn on a $2.50/month debian or centos VPS.
Do check that they have the tun/tap module included on the vps before signing up or open VPN won't work on that vps host.
Yes, that's essential. Assuming use of a vps that is not really a real vm (xen pv, xen hvm or kvm), but more like a glorified jail, which is what most of the cheap ones are that use openvz or similar.
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Then make it better. It's opensource ;)
I already did. Here is how to createa a self-hosted VPN server at a cloud provider of your choice. Don't trust your network traffic to anyone but yourself: https://blog.trailofbits.com/2016/12/12/meet-algo-the-vpn-th... https://github.com/trailofbits/algo
Do you have users in China? I'm curious whether IKEv2 works well through GFW. I use Shadowsocks (on my Asus router, and on my Android/iOS devices), and it works well.
What would I gain in ease-of-use, performance, or security by switching to Algo?
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#45It's bad enough of an idea to connect to an open/untrusted WiFi network - now we're showing HN how to connect to random VPNs all over the world? My cursory opinion of this is that it's the worst idea ever I've ever seen make HN's front page.
I couldn't agree more, and in JavaScript to top it off!
Seriously people - don't just randomly connect to VPNs: you're essentially bridging your computer / network to a completely untrusted network that's more than likely to have all manor of people doing nefarious / dangerous things on it - do you really want to put yourself at risk as well as be associated with them?
Re: Show HN: Easily connect to a VPN in a country of your choice
#46It's bad enough of an idea to connect to an open/untrusted WiFi network - now we're showing HN how to connect to random VPNs all over the world? My cursory opinion of this is that it's the worst idea ever I've ever seen make HN's front page.
It's only bad if you think it's secure. It's not like a secured wifi is likely to be secure, either.
Most people don't understand whys secure and what's not, remember we live in a society where people generally don't know that connecting to a 'free' wireless network without a password means that all your traffic is completely unencrypted.
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#47I guess this tool is intended for command line operation and scripting. If all you want to do is get around regional restrictions to watch videos, see http://hola.org/ . EDIT: Also, you should assume that any anonymous VPN service has a good chance of being spyware or even malware, so you should sandbox it in a virtual machine or similar.
Don't _ever_ use Hola! It's a scam / malware designed to funnel traffic through your internet connection.
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It's only bad if you think it's secure. It's not like a secured wifi is likely to be secure, either.
Most people don't understand whys secure and what's not, remember we live in a society where people generally don't know that connecting to a 'free' wireless network without a password means that all your traffic is completely unencrypted.
I can't count how many times I've made a point on HN and someone has replied about how most people are so ignorant. If secure matters then you better read and educate yourself. Ignorance of the law is no excuse and ignorance in general is no excuse. It's not tech savy people's problem if most people refuse to exercise their brain.
Sorry if I sound like a jerk but, I get tired of this dismissive as if it's excusable. I feel like people think tech savy people should hold everyone's hand and help them figure out how to use technology. No one is forcing them to use technology as far as I can tell.
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The source of the VPN servers is vpngate.net - an academic research that started 2013, at Graduate School of University of Tsukuba, Japan. From their about [0] page: - You can get through the government's firewall to browse restricted web sites (e.g. YouTube). - You can disguise your IP address to hide your identity while surfing the Internet. - You can protect yourself by utilizing its strong encryption while using…
I've taken a cursory look at SoftEther a few months ago. It looks like a research project that was then unsuccessfully commercialized, and then released to the public somewhat hastily. The code quality leaves a lot to be desired (there is nothing offensive, but it still does not inspire confidence for there not being security bugs), and the code style is not great either. The amount of marketing copytext is dispropor…
Bugger. I set up SoftEther because it was the only thing I could get working reliably (by that, I mean only 2 disconnections per hour).
Re: Show HN: Easily connect to a VPN in a country of your choice
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It's only bad if you think it's secure. It's not like a secured wifi is likely to be secure, either.
Most people don't understand whys secure and what's not, remember we live in a society where people generally don't know that connecting to a 'free' wireless network without a password means that all your traffic is completely unencrypted.
That's not of my business, I cant protect people from themselves, and even if I could, I think it's wrong to protect somebody by restricting the options. Anyway... those arguments will never make a point against sharing an open tool.