[Novalug] OT VPN Services - Needed?

Roger W. Broseus rogerb@bronord.com
Tue Aug 20 17:00:50 EDT 2013


Chuck (and others):

Okay, that was my thinking. I am re-convinced that a vpn service is good 
insurance. Thanks.

As for your disclaimer, paranoia pays - especially if "they" are after your 
personal info.

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Roger W. Broseus - Linux User
     Email:RogerB@bronord.com
     Web Site:www.bronord.com

On 08/20/2013 02:06 PM, Chuck Frain wrote:
> Disclaimer: I consider all networks beyond my router hostile. For the
> purposes of this discussion, my ISP is trusted compared to others.
>
> Do you really need the VPN service? I would say yes if your travel
> involves hotel stays. There's simply no way to trust the hotel network
> as you don't know who is staying in the room next to your or the other
> XX number of rooms in the place, the staff, or who may have left a
> sniffer in a closet somewhere at some prior point in time. Not to
> mention what the hotel as a corporate entity providing the access might
> want to do with data is sees coming from/to you.
>
> Assuming you trust the VPN provider, you can bypass the local untrusted
> network and conduct your internet browsing, mail, etc from their
> network.
>
> My regular VPN use is a ssh tunnel with port forwarding to my home
> network. I connect to a box with a squid proxy and filter all my
> internet access through that. I use DynDNS for my dynamic IP address and
> fwknop for cloaking my open ports at home.
>
> I pay for a commercial VPN service for some places that I cannot ssh
> from to my home. At $40 a year, its nice to have the backup to get out
> from the hotel networks.
>
> On Mon, 19 Aug 2013, Roger W. Broseus wrote:
>
>> I'm wondering if I really need the VPN service that I pay for. My thinking had
>> been to protect myself, particularly when traveling. However, I set my primary
>> DNS server to Google's public DNS and use https for accessing things like
>> banking. Email is accessed with Thunderbird using SSL/TLS. I don't travel to
>> places like China.

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