[grc] What is a trustworthy VPN?

[Paul Bame]

Trustworthy means different things to different people. If you mean 
reliable bandwidth all the time with few to no outages that's one thing. 
If you mean reliably anonymous that's another thing. If you mean you 
want a private VPN to connect your office and road-warrior
seamlessly, that's another set of stuff. So VPN can be a fairly 
ambiguous term because
VPNs are so broadly useful.

Riseup runs a VPN which is probably a bit more reliably anonymous than 
some, given their
values. In the past it has also sometimes been overloaded. I haven't 
used it in a while.
Also beware that appears their canary died and what that might mean: 
https://riseup.net/canary

I believe Wikileaks protected sources with some sort of double VPN 
arrangement.

Tor is your friend for anonymity rather than a VPN.


On 2016-12-28 18:08, Sabrina Roach via grc wrote:
> I'd love hivemind input on which VPN's they like.
> 
> I'm a Riseup user for listservs I manage and am starting to use Signal 
> for
> texting. If it's useful to know that to know where my values are. If I
> should also be looking at other products that are nonprofit and secure,
> lmk.
> 
> I also would like to know what one pays for a good VPN.
> 
> Thanks!
> Sabrina
> 
> 
> On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 9:05 PM, shhhhh via grc <grc at maillist.peak.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> Howdy collective expert mind!
>> 
>> How much bandwidth do we need to run a VPN as our STL? We are also
>> building a microwave STL but it's taking longer than we planned-- of
>> course! And yes, both ends will be on the same network.
>> 
>> Related to this, the (very) local ISP is offering us public or private
>> static IPs-- which is better/worse?
>> 
>> We're trying to get on-air *this* week-- yikes!
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