[markomalley]

Private Internet Access (PIA) has a very nice launcher that works perfectly in Mint, as well.

[SWAMP-C1PHER]

These are mandatory as far as I’m concerned.

[taxcontrol]

If strong security is your preference, use OpenVPN

https://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/documentation/howto.html

[TomGuy]

Opera browser now has VPN built in. It can access about 5 world-wide locations FREE [US, Canada, Singapore, Netherlands, Germany]. Additional locations are available for a pay-upgrade.

FYI

[Dr. Sivana]

ping for later

[JFoobar]

Linux Mint has it’s own dedicated Private Internet Access client called PIA Manager. Mint 18.3 will have a usermode PIA client.

https://blog.linuxmint.com/

Also consider Torguard. They have a standalone linux client that just works. No configuration needed. Neither log or are US dependent.

You should get a vpn before you even have internet access. It’s mandatory. With all the trackers, crazy laws, and hostile governments trying to bend people over, you have to have this now. Otherwise, everything you type will be aggregated for future use when you can least protect yourself.

PS- Windows 10 is literaaly spyware in a OS wrapper. Get off it.

[chuckles]

ping for later.

[the_Watchman]

Two years ago, my son and I set up a VPN between our households. Each of us put up a dedicated VM running Linux. We ran the VPN across specific ports which we exposed on our house routers. Internally, we employed standard Linux port forwarding.

When the system was set up, I could access web pages from my iPad using WIFI while sitting on my family room sofa, where the web pages were being served by an Apache web server on my son’s linux box across town.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Get a dd-wrt router and everything on your network can be behind a VPN.

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/

[ptsal]

Thanks
Bookmark VPN

[Paladin2]

The TOR browser is apparently compromised by NSA and others. How secure from gov’t snooping are these private VPN operations?

[frogjerk]

I love Openvpn. I have been using it for years.

[SgtHooper]

I heard some of the VPN servers are bandwidth limited. Any truth to that?

[Pollard]

Yup, we use PIA (Private Internet Access) and run linux on everything. $33/yr is pretty cheap protection from the trackers(googly).

[dayglored]

Hey ShadowAce, are you still doing the Tech Pings?

And I pray you have recovered from your accident some time back...

[WildHighlander57]

Many thanks!

Bookmarking !

[GraceG]

Thx, bookmarking yhe crap outta this.

[freds6girlies]

bookmark

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

BFL.

[eyedigress]

Actually it sends a code to your phone.

This is stupid.