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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) by Gaaark on Monday April 14 2014, @11:14PM

    by Gaaark (41) on Monday April 14 2014, @11:14PM (#31559) Journal

    Thanks for the pointer... will look at TorGuard and will search for options like it.

    I am not a mouth-breather (as an anonymous useless tried to say): between work, family life and my autistic son, my time is not what it used to be and I have not been able to keep up with things like security like I wish. Sometimes life just hands you less time than you'd like.

    And I appreciate you taking your time to help me! :)

    My concern is just that it looks like Canada has joined those countries that used to be 'free', but now are much less so.

    I want to hide my activities from my ISP, and my government (as well as the American NSA, it seems)...

    If I can do this in a free way, I would appreciate it: if not, I may have to go the way of things like TorGuard.

    Again, thank you and the others who have tried to help.

    For those 'mouth breathers' who post anonymously and uselessly.......... man up, will you?

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Foobar Bazbot on Tuesday April 15 2014, @12:31AM

    by Foobar Bazbot (37) on Tuesday April 15 2014, @12:31AM (#31583) Journal

    For those 'mouth breathers' who post anonymously and uselessly.......... man up, will you?

    This sort of anonymity-hate, from the guy asking for help with a VPN for privacy?
    If you weren't busy mouth-breathing, you might see the irony there.

    • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday April 15 2014, @12:49AM

      by Gaaark (41) on Tuesday April 15 2014, @12:49AM (#31592) Journal

      Like I said, the anonymous 'useless' posters...

      Anonymous haters are what made slashdot such a sucky site... hate to see them moving over here.

      I'm just asking a question that I wanted answers to, in a civilized manner, when 'useless' trolls off.
      Guess I was just stupid for feeding the troll, in an off-hand manner.
      I apologize.

      Man.

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