Algo: A set of Ansible scripts that simplify the setup of a personal IPSEC VPN
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Re: Algo: A set of Ansible scripts that simplify the setup of a personal IPSEC VPN
#2Serious question, do people consider a cloud provider to be more trustworthy than a professional VPN company?
Re: Algo: A set of Ansible scripts that simplify the setup of a personal IPSEC VPN
#3Serious question, do people consider a cloud provider to be more trustworthy than a professional VPN company?
It depends on a cloud provider
Re: Algo: A set of Ansible scripts that simplify the setup of a personal IPSEC VPN
#4> Does not install Tor, OpenVPN, or other risky servers
Although I recognize IPsec is a widely supported protocol and suitable for this use case, did the readme intend to imply OpenVPN is risky?
Re: Algo: A set of Ansible scripts that simplify the setup of a personal IPSEC VPN
#5Serious question, do people consider a cloud provider to be more trustworthy than a professional VPN company?
It depends. Some VPN services will go out of their way to protect users' privacy. Because it's a moral issue for them. Or because they value their reputation. Others will sell you out, to avoid penalties and costs. And the same is true for cloud providers.
Re: Algo: A set of Ansible scripts that simplify the setup of a personal IPSEC VPN
#6Serious question, do people consider a cloud provider to be more trustworthy than a professional VPN company?
Perhaps? If you’re using a VPN to protect your internet traffic from being sold to ad companies, probably. The VPN industry has become a racket full of affiliate schemes that push people towards plans and services that don’t necessarily act in the user’s best interest. Figuring out the food from the bad can be difficult. And I’ve seen some services that when audited use outdated or insecure stacks.
Of course, if you’re using a VPN to try to protect your browsing activity from authorities, obviously a major cloud provider may be more willing to turn your info over to someone else.
Re: Algo: A set of Ansible scripts that simplify the setup of a personal IPSEC VPN
#7>Algo supports DigitalOcean (most user friendly), Amazon Lightsail, Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure, Google Compute Engine, Scaleway and OpenStack.
four of the seven listed are cloud providers that actively encourage censorship for the sake of their business model. at best, you would be a fool to run a personal VPN on them, at worst the fact that support exists at all could be evidence that this software is in fact worse than openVPN or TOR in that it facilitates an obviously poor implementation.
Google and Microsoft both joined the PRISM program in 2009.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)#M...
Re: Algo: A set of Ansible scripts that simplify the setup of a personal IPSEC VPN
#8I prefer https://github.com/hwdsl2/setup-ipsec-vpn. Shamless blog post on setting it up on a Raspberry Pi 3 - https://blog.elasticbyte.net/setting-up-a-native-cisco-ipsec...
Re: Algo: A set of Ansible scripts that simplify the setup of a personal IPSEC VPN
#9Not enough people have heard of Outline.
https://getoutline.org/
It is a shadowsocks client and even non-technical users can provision VPNs on cloud hosting providers.
Re: Algo: A set of Ansible scripts that simplify the setup of a personal IPSEC VPN
#10Having not done any cloud work myself I have no clue how much this would cost, anyone able to give a rough estimate?