[dba-Tech] VPN Recommendations

[Jim Lawrence]

Fred and Rocky:

The price per VPN, is between $30 and $60 per year. 

Here is one of the most popular VPN service providers: https://nordvpn.com/

I also use SSH, related tools and a package like OpenVPN to connect with friends and businesses I deal with on a regular bases. My mutual fund adviser sends all my updates through a SSH mail service. The banks similar and now my doctor is extending an encrypted service to his clients which he has been using for a few years to communicate with his fellow physicians. With the help of my SiL, we just ran up a new version of NextCloud so our family could transfer pictures of the families back and forth without having to access some public Cloud. 

My SiL has completed a system which allows all the family members, who have web sites, to upload to a private Git, which automatically compiles the updated site into a Container, then exports the Container, to my Apache server. This means that someone may be able to hack into the website, but changes possible will be minimal, actual specs will be obscured and "island-hopping" is impossible as each site is completely isolated. (The whole system runs on a Raspberry Pi). I should get and post the scripts used to create the infrastructure...that of course is, if anyone is interested.     

I think in the near future this may become the way of using the internet. I don't think it paranoid, it is just like wearing a seat-belt or pulling the blinds when dressing as no one needs or wants to see that. ;-)

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Hooper" <fahooper at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2017 12:57:48 PM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] VPN Recommendations

A VPN is an "encrypted tunnel" between two points. Your local end is 
software either on a computer (PC or phone) or on a router. The "exit 
node" is a computer elsewhere in the world. In between your connection 
is noise. When your connection leaves the VPN it becomes visible -- 
generally, you can choose where this is. I usually use New York, 
assuming I'll be lost in the clutter.

That exit node has to be provided and maintained by someone, which is 
why there's a charge for a VPN. The faster the connection the more 
robust (and expensive) that node has to be.

A router with active VPN software encrypts everything going though it 
without the user taking any actions; that's as close to turnkey as it 
gets -- but you'll have to buy a router that's already prepared to make 
it turnkey. Note that this only protects you when you're working through 
the router. If you're at Starbucks you're not protected unless you've 
installed and use VPN software; this will come with a VPN subscription.

Fred
> Rocky Smolin <mailto:rockysmolin at bchacc.com>
> Thursday, March 30, 2017 10:57 AM
> ", you'll still need to find a supplier for the exit nodes," What does 
> that
> mean? Is there a 'turnkey
> Solution for folks like me who don't know anything about VPN and don't
> really want to?
>
> R
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of
> Fred Hooper
> Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2017 4:30 AM
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] VPN Recommendations
>
> I've just been looking at routers with VPN. I started with ExpressVPN (who
> provide free software for some routers) and followed their link to
> FlashRouters, who supply routers with VPN already installed. Of course,
> you'll still need to find a supplier for the exit nodes, these vary in
> price, speed and reliability.
>
> My experience with free VPNs is that they throttle the speed and I quickly
> get annoyed.
>
> Best,
> Fred
>
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> Fred Hooper <mailto:fahooper at gmail.com>
> Thursday, March 30, 2017 7:29 AM
> I've just been looking at routers with VPN. I started with ExpressVPN 
> (who provide free software for some routers) and followed their link 
> to FlashRouters, who supply routers with VPN already installed. Of 
> course, you'll still need to find a supplier for the exit nodes, these 
> vary in price, speed and reliability.
>
> My experience with free VPNs is that they throttle the speed and I 
> quickly get annoyed.
>
> Best,
> Fred
>
> Rocky Smolin <mailto:rockysmolin at bchacc.com>
> Wednesday, March 29, 2017 9:04 PM
> List(s):
>
>
>
> I'm thinking about doing a VPN but I don't like fooling around with 
> stuff on
> the computer any more - so I want something that's easy, foolproof, 
> doesn't
> require, knowledge, tweaking, consulting forums, etc. I want transparent,
> intuitive, free (if possible), steep learning curve, and then disappears
> into the background and doesn't bother me every 3 hours for some problem.
>
>
>
> Is there such a thing?
>
>
>
> TIA
>
>
>
> R
>
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