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

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: 1) by cwadge on Tuesday April 15 2014, @03:06AM

    by cwadge (3324) on Tuesday April 15 2014, @03:06AM (#31642) Homepage Journal
    • It's open source.
    • The client works on all the major platforms, and also with off-the-shelf VPN clients like Tunnelblick and Viscosity.
    • The server works with most major Linux distributions, on bare metal or in [para]virtualization.
    • It's free for the first two (simultaneous) users.
    • Licensing is very reasonable after two users (less than $10/yr/seat, IIRC).
    • It uses PolarSSL under the hood, not OpenSSL, so it was never vulnerable to Heartbleed.
    • It's super easy for an admin to configure securely.
    • It's also super easy for the client to use.

    In the interest of full disclosure, I'm not affiliated with OpenVPN-AS in any way, but I have successfully deployed it at several companies in the past. Give it a spin, I think you'll be impressed.