Re:NordVPN confirms it was hacked
by rsync on Monday October 21, 2019 @11:07AM
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"I don't understand the obsession with VPN providers. Funneling all your Internet access through a single entity no matter where you connect from just seems like a fundamentally bad idea to me, especially if that entity's business is getting people to funnel all their traffic through, making them a juicy target for governments or hackers."
Agreed - especially when it is so very, very cheap and easy to fire up a handful of VMs - around the world - and run your endpoints any way you like.
By far my preferred technology is 'sshuttle'[1] which allows you to use any host, anywhere, running ssh as a VPN endpoint. That cuts the setup time for your VMs down to almost zero.
Re:NordVPN confirms it was hacked
by novok on Monday October 21, 2019 @01:48PM
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You can fire up VMs, but then issue becomes the VM provider, which definitely has their own logs. Doing torrents through a VPN you setup on a VM provider usually gets the automated emails being forwarded to you.
Agreed - especially when it is so very, very cheap and easy to fire up a handful of VMs - around the world - and run your endpoints any way you like.
By far my preferred technology is 'sshuttle'[1] which allows you to use any host, anywhere, running ssh as a VPN endpoint. That cuts the setup time for your VMs down to almost zero.
[1] https://github.com/sshuttle