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Re: Show HN: Easily connect to a VPN in a country of your choice

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Post by hrrsn »

koolba wrote: post #22
kobayashi wrote: post #21

It'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.

> My cursory opinion of this is that it's the worst idea ever I've ever seen make HN's front page. Not disputing that it's the worst but it could be even more worse. It's missing the key component: a curl | bash install and upgrade script running over HTTP (not HTTPS). In this case it'd be extra hilarious as upgrades would presumably go over your existing VPN connection which could then hijack the script and run arbi…

I gotchu' (/s)

curl http://pastie.org/pastes/10992864/download | bash

Re: Show HN: Easily connect to a VPN in a country of your choice

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Post by happy_spanners »

FilterSweep wrote: post #13
wale wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Netflix is able to detect you're using a VPN, and advices to switch back to enjoy its services, I'm sure. At least I got that alert recently. So is there another bypass?

Just throwing it out there - are you sure there isn't a session cookie tied to your login still on your machine? Or, am I completely wrong and you're just limited to the country's offerings by your location on registration?

You're not limited by registration. I've travelled and found that I had a different library in different countries.

Re: Show HN: Easily connect to a VPN in a country of your choice

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Post by kobayashi »

rodrigogs wrote: post #24
kobayashi wrote: post #21

It'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.

Then make it better. It's opensource ;)

That's a common refrain. It's just that I don't think there's a good idea on which to build/improve. I commend you for putting (presumably) your work out here for all to see, and good on you for making your project FOSS, but this is not a project I will support.

Re: Show HN: Easily connect to a VPN in a country of your choice

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Post by compuguy »

zhan_eg wrote: post #20
simlevesque wrote: post #2

> Automatically connect you to a random VPN in a country of your choice. Why would someone do such a thing?

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…

Yes, I've been using it for a couple of years. It has a decent UI to spinning up a variety of VPN configurations.

Re: Show HN: Easily connect to a VPN in a country of your choice

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Post by dguido »

rodrigogs wrote: post #24
kobayashi wrote: post #21

It'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.

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

Re: Show HN: Easily connect to a VPN in a country of your choice

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Post by mschuster91 »

dguido wrote: post #35
rodrigogs wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

> Don't trust your network traffic to anyone but yourself

You still trust the cloud providers' upstream. In case of UK providers, the GCHQ sniffs upstream and ingress, so they can correlate traffic. Same for DE (BND, MAD) and basically all countries.

Re: Show HN: Easily connect to a VPN in a country of your choice

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Post by pixelHD »

rodrigogs wrote: post #11
pixelHD wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i get your point, but connecting to a random country won't be of much help though.

You can choose the country by passing -c argument. Example: easyvpn -c JP

oh, my bad, didn't notice that
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