[TriLUG] VPN and Proxy Services

[Jack Hill]

On Thursday 31 March 2011 11:50:25 Jack Hill wrote:
> On Thursday 31 March 2011 11:31:34 matt at noway2.thruhere.net wrote:
> > This brings up a tin-foil hat question that came up recently and I have
> > been wondering about: anonymous internet access and email.  As I have TWC
> > Bus Class with static IPs the IPs and domains, etc are even more
> > traceable than the average dynamic residential account.  While this
> > doesn't really bother me, I would rather have the choice of not having
> > my connections easily traced back to my house.  I have looked at a few
> > proxy services and looked at their terms of service.  Most of them
> > pretty much all say, "we guarantee your anonymity unless .... we believe
> > we need to provide this information to comply with ... insert agency or
> > jurisdiction of choice, in which case we will give them total records of
> > your doings.  Often times, these conditions don't even require a legal
> > warrant or writ, but amount to a complaint.  In my mind, this defeats
> > the purpose.  I have played around with TOR, but it is awfully slow,
> > which is why I was looking at paid services.
> > 
> > Are there any proxy or VPN services that do not keep records for both
> > your and their benefit or are in an area that would simply thumb its
> > nose at the USA?
> 
> You should check out Tor <https://www.torproject.org/>. It is designed for
> providing anonymity. Read the website for information about he project and
> how it works, but a key feature is that your traffic goes through multiple
> tor nodes (each of which is operated independently), so even a rogue node
> that logs data won't be able to tell both who you are and what content you
> are trying to access.
> 
> Jack
<embarrassed>And I fail at reading</embarrassed>. You should think about 
running a Tor node. The network speed will increase as the number of possible 
paths increases (decreasing the amount of traffic on each).