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Ask Soylent: How Best to Set Up a VPN?

posted by mrcoolbp on Monday April 14 2014, @05:58PM   Printer-friendly
from the all-your-VPN-are-belong-to-us dept.

Gaaark writes:

Hello fellow Soylentils. Colour me a nice Soylent Green Canadian who up until recently has only worried somewhat about security. I use linux (mostly Ubuntu) and in the past I have had time to work at config files and do google searches to solve my problems. Today i have far less time to do these things. My question is: can anyone (practically) hand me a good, easy, linux-friendly, and hopefully cheap VPN solution? Extra kudos to those with free options.

Canada seems to be heading in the direction of the United States and I am beginning to worry that my internet is being taken from me. Can anyone come up with a solution to keep my internetting private and my downloads from being pried into? (I've heard VPN is the way to go, but searching for solutions leaves me wondering if I'm getting scammed in the process.)

Thanks in advance for the help.

 
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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by iWantToKeepAnon on Monday April 14 2014, @06:35PM

    by iWantToKeepAnon (686) on Monday April 14 2014, @06:35PM (#31459) Homepage Journal

    > "Unless you have opted out we will send your keystrokes to third parties including: Facebook, ...

    Ummm, people voluntarily send their keystrokes to fb and 3rd parties.

    http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_te nse/2013/12/facebook_self_censorship_what_happens_ to_the_posts_you_don_t_publish.html [slate.com]

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  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Monday April 14 2014, @07:31PM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Monday April 14 2014, @07:31PM (#31493) Journal

    How many of those people are even aware that they send their keystrokes?

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Joe Desertrat on Tuesday April 15 2014, @01:55AM

    by Joe Desertrat (2454) on Tuesday April 15 2014, @01:55AM (#31619)

    "...Ummm, people voluntarily send their keystrokes to fb and 3rd parties..."

    I wonder if this could be taken advantage of or abused by the end user. Typing in lists of expletives or bizarre forms of porn or long posts of Shakespeare or better yet, info you want to promote, like your website or even your store name, then erasing it. What happens to it then? Can you somehow skew Facebook's marketing and advertising?