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I work for an ISP and believe deeply in online privacy. I've had the idea of offering up an as-private-as-I-can-make-it VPN service a few times, but I always end up at the same point: wondering how I could prove that the service wasn't doing anything malicious or nefarious -- "taps", Netflow data, etc. would all be easily available to me. What would it take to convince you that a VPN service was trustworthy?
I feel like people who complain about this are people who wouldn't be satisfied with anything unless they rolled it themselves. Of course, you could purchase your own server, use OpenVPN, etc. But anything that you haven't touched yourself is just one more thing that's potentially malicious.
Never trust a 3rd party VPN for anything sensitive ever, period. Words of assurance and "security audits" are completely meaningless. HTTPS interception and forwarding is a trivial thing to do. For the public who are unable to setup their own VPN, they will have to accept that everything they do is being monitored by a random internet company rather than their ISP now. There can be some use for these services if you…
I'd rather give my internet traffic to a company that doesn't sell my info versus my ISP, which almost certainly would sell my info.
Seriously. Both get paid and provide Internet connectivity. Both have incentives to do something to your traffic, would it have no negative consequences (financial, legal or just moral) for them.
The only non-technical difference is that VPNs have a lot of competition (so free market actually works) and in some countries/areas telcos have near-monopolistic positions.
That doesn't mean that VPNs are universal friends of your privacy and ISPs are its foes. Just that there is some disbalance.
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I'd rather give my internet traffic to a company that doesn't sell my info versus my ISP, which almost certainly would sell my info.
A VPN provider is no different than ISP. Seriously. Both get paid and provide Internet connectivity. Both have incentives to do something to your traffic, would it have no negative consequences (financial, legal or just moral) for them. The only non-technical difference is that VPNs have a lot of competition (so free market actually works) and in some countries/areas telcos have near-monopolistic positions. That does…
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You can use the MacOS Network settings to connect to most types of VPN (hit "+" and fill in the forms to add a new connection). For free, open-source clients, Tunnelblick is very common.
macOS and iOS don't support OpenVPN with the built-in client. You can use strongSwan-based VPNs (e.g., as would be deployed through Algo) or Cisco, but for OpenVPN you'll need a custom client which, unfortunately, very likely brings along its own .kext.
GetCloak has also done a 3rd party audit, and is planning their next one: https://support.getcloak.com/faq/technology/#have-you-had-an...
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You can use the MacOS Network settings to connect to most types of VPN (hit "+" and fill in the forms to add a new connection). For free, open-source clients, Tunnelblick is very common.
macOS and iOS don't support OpenVPN with the built-in client. You can use strongSwan-based VPNs (e.g., as would be deployed through Algo) or Cisco, but for OpenVPN you'll need a custom client which, unfortunately, very likely brings along its own .kext.
From the known issues page:
"If you are running on OS X 10.6.8 or higher and using OpenVPN 2.3.4 or higher and using a TUN device, the default Tunnelblick setting to "Load Tun Automatically" (on the "Advanced" settings window) will avoid this problem by not loading the tun kext — OS X's built-in "utun" device will be used instead of a "tun" device."
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Are there any nice free VPN Clients out there? I haven't been very lucky in finding any in the OS X realm
NetworkManager is pretty much the default GUI for most distros and DEs, and has built-in support for OpenVPN, PPTP, L2TP, IPsec, SSH, etc... And it also integrates well with the Wifi setup, so you can easily set it up to automatically connect to the VPN when you connect to certain networks.