Recommendation for a Good VPN and a PGP on Email Tutorial.
Hello, I was hoping someone on this list might be able to help me out with some advice and/or point me to a previous thread or to a good current resource. I have decided (belatedly) that it would be good to start using a VPN service to connect to the Internet. There are a large number of choices out there and I was wondering if anyone on GTALUG uses and recommends any. Also, if someone could point me to a good tutorial for PGP on email that would also be helpful. I assume the only way to use PGP with Gmail is through a client like Thunderbird (which is what I use for my consulting email address). Thanks so much for your help in advance. This list has always been very interesting to read for me, even if I don't feel I have the technical expertise to contribute much. :P Regards, Brad -- Brad Fonseca Mobile: 416-876-2191
Brad Fonseca via talk wrote:
Hello,
I was hoping someone on this list might be able to help me out with some advice and/or point me to a previous thread or to a good current resource.
I have decided (belatedly) that it would be good to start using a VPN service to connect to the Internet. There are a large number of choices out there and I was wondering if anyone on GTALUG uses and recommends any.
Also, if someone could point me to a good tutorial for PGP on email that would also be helpful. I assume the only way to use PGP with Gmail is through a client like Thunderbird (which is what I use for my consulting email address).
For VPN I use [Private Internet Access][0] it has access points in ~20 countries (include multiple in Canada). They also provided amazing documentation on how to setup in virtual every environment. There is also TunnelBear[1] which is a Toronto based company and has limited Linux support though OpenVPN[2]. As for PGP Email tutorials I would suggest the EFF's [Email Self Defense][3] guide. It's the best. Also if you are becoming a "tin foil hat" type you should checkout Tails[4]. It's a Live Linux OS that aims to "preserving your privacy and anonymity" on the Internet. [0]: <https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/> [1]: <https://www.tunnelbear.com/> [2]: <https://www.tunnelbear.com/blog/linux_support/> [3]: <https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/> [4]: <https://tails.boum.org/> -- Have an awesome day, and happy open-sourcing :-).
On Sat, 5 Nov 2016 at 16:04 Myles Braithwaite <me@mylesbraithwaite.com> wrote:
For VPN I use [Private Internet Access][0] it has access points in ~20 countries (include multiple in Canada). They also provided amazing documentation on how to setup in virtual every environment. There is also TunnelBear[1] which is a Toronto based company and has limited Linux support though OpenVPN[2].
As for PGP Email tutorials I would suggest the EFF's [Email Self Defense][3] guide. It's the best.
Also if you are becoming a "tin foil hat" type you should checkout Tails[4]. It's a Live Linux OS that aims to "preserving your privacy and anonymity" on the Internet.
[0]: <https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/> [1]: <https://www.tunnelbear.com/> [2]: <https://www.tunnelbear.com/blog/linux_support/> [3]: <https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/> [4]: <https://tails.boum.org/>
-- Have an awesome day, and happy open-sourcing :-).
Myles, Thanks for the links and advice! I'll look into Private Internet Access. You're not the first one to recommend this VPN provider (and another poster on this thread [David Collier-Brown] linked me to an article that recommended it also). If they have good documentation then that will help immensely. I do connect my laptop to my work VPN regularly so I'm hoping it won't be too much of stretch to do this for myself too. Another question: is there any hit to the speed of the network if I'm using a VPN? I've seen a drop in download and upload speed when I'm on my work's VPN versus when I'm not. As far as becoming a "tin foil hat" type, I guess we'll see... :) Brad -- Brad Fonseca Mobile: 416-876-2191
Brad Fonseca via talk wrote:
Another question: is there any hit to the speed of the network if I'm using a VPN? I've seen a drop in download and upload speed when I'm on my work's VPN versus when I'm not.
Yes you will notice a drop in download and upload speeds. This can't be helped as every requests has to go though the VPN tunnel access their Internet and come back down the tunnel to give you the response. Also I have heard a Canadian ISP (cough Shaw cough) that like to throttle P2P traffic in a effort to stop people using BitTorrent[0]. They consider VPN a P2P protocol for some crazy reason (do a Google Search for "vpn throttle canada isp" and you will see what I mean). Anyways, I have used it to circumvent certain annoying country blocks on a video streaming site (cough Vevo cough) and haven't noticed that large of streaming difficulty (video start time takes a couple seconds vs. a couple milliseconds which doesn't really matter as long as I get to watch the latest Beyoncé video before most Canadians). [0]: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwidth_throttling#Canada> -- Have an awesome day, and happy open-sourcing :-).
http://falkvinge.net/2015/03/03/why-ive-chosen-to-go-with-private-internet-a... Rick Falkvinge is mostly concerned about privacy and confidentiality: other stuff comes last with him (;-)) --dave On 05/11/16 08:29 AM, Brad Fonseca via talk wrote:
Hello,
I was hoping someone on this list might be able to help me out with some advice and/or point me to a previous thread or to a good current resource.
I have decided (belatedly) that it would be good to start using a VPN service to connect to the Internet. There are a large number of choices out there and I was wondering if anyone on GTALUG uses and recommends any.
Also, if someone could point me to a good tutorial for PGP on email that would also be helpful. I assume the only way to use PGP with Gmail is through a client like Thunderbird (which is what I use for my consulting email address).
Thanks so much for your help in advance. This list has always been very interesting to read for me, even if I don't feel I have the technical expertise to contribute much. :P
Regards,
Brad -- Brad Fonseca Mobile: 416-876-2191
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