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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.
(Score: 2) by egcagrac0 on Monday April 14 2014, @06:46PM
That's the real question - what do you want to do?
Two common uses of "VPN" are to either access a network remotely, as if you're local to the network, or to appear to a foreign network (like the internet) like you're somewhere else on it (like to stream America region restricted video in Asia) (this would also be known as a "proxy").
Who you want to keep it private from is a second concern.
A lot of cheap hosting companies don't want you to use them as a proxy, since their bandwidth isn't available symmetrically. Check the ToS.
Figure out what you want and get back to us, so we have a half a chance of making a reasonable suggestion.