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posted by martyb on Monday October 02 2017, @02:35PM   Printer-friendly
from the we're-not-out-to-get-you dept.

Bravely Anonymous writes:

I'm about to move and at my new address I'd like to start out more secured against my ISP and doxers/stalkers. Basically I think I should use a VPN/VPS for personal related traffic (email, shopping), another VPN/VPS for online communities, and then regular net access for random browsing (is all that overkill?). There's been articles in the past about VPN providers (feel free to recommend someone), but there's less about how to configure your network and computer to use them. I'd prefer to be able to use all three at once, but I've heard most people recommend configuring their routers to a single VPN to prevent leakage. But then one company could be logging all your traffic again or it would be easy to forget to switch to/from the VPNs. Is that necessary? Is there Linux-based software which completely restricts applications to certain networks or is that something I should manually setup through iptables and /etc network scripts? My primary OS is LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) and my current router runs DD-WRT, though that might change with the new ISP.

In summary, what's a good strategy to keep the different parts of your online life segregated from each other other than simply using different user names?

Thanks for your insights.

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  • (Score: 1) by noneof_theabove on Monday October 02 2017, @11:15PM

    by noneof_theabove (6189) on Monday October 02 2017, @11:15PM (#576297)

    Well I am late.
    This is a good start although is can be quite technical and a bit of over kill.
    I settled on Private Internet Access back in Feb 2017 and set others up.
    Easy to use, no problem install for Windows 7 with VBox running SolydXK Linux.
    And I still 3 more devices that includes Android just haven't bothered as I have a substantial investment in my pc and do not live on my phone, since I have 100/10 Spectrum.
    Customer service was great given the time that I got it because the were "swamped", 3 days instead of 1 day to get going.

    NOTE: May web sites do not play nice with VPN. But a right click on the tray icon and disconnect, with rebooting or restarting the OS, and you are back to normal.
    I also suggest Opera and activate their "free for opera / $ for other browsers add-on".
    Do not mix the two concepts up. A browser add-on does not give the end-to-end like a true VPN.
    I suggest not putting in a router [WRT no problem] since the nice factor of the web is very lacking since "we are their product".

    Of course you can do as you wish and I do not have any connection with any company I recommend, just a builder, programmer, repair tech that care.