Re: Need help with script for VPN

On 03/12/2015 01:38 PM, Gustin Johnson wrote:
> Even TOR which was designed to do this as much as possible is far from 
> perfect (essentially best case is that TOR provides a 50/50 chance that your 
> privacy is maintained).

Gustin, I couldn't find anything about the 50/50 privacy, if you have any 
pointers can you share?

> This can have some advantage in that your exit point can be in a different 
> legal jurisdiction, but never assume that you are protected. [...] Your 
> browser is still connecting to the same endpoints, the web sites still use 
> various tracking methods to uniquely identify your connection, and none of 
> this is solved by a VPN.

If Joe is looking for anonymity while browsing, then a simple solution is using 
the Tor browser (which provides https, protection against canvas fingerprinting 
etc.) over an SSH socks tunnel to a VPS outside NSA (and friends) jurisdiction.  
If the SSH tunnel dies the browser won't connect, here's an output from my 
session:

   Apr 02 22:42:47.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 90%: Establishing a Tor circuit

   Apr 02 22:42:48.000 [notice] Tor has successfully opened a circuit. Looks 
   like client functionality is working.

   Apr 02 22:42:48.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 100%: Done

   Apr 02 22:42:49.000 [notice] New control connection opened from 127.0.0.1.

   ...

   Apr 02 23:34:20.000 [warn] The connection to the SOCKS5 proxy server at 
   127.0.0.1:44380 just failed. Make sure that the proxy server is up and 
   running.

   Apr 02 23:34:21.000 [warn] The connection to the SOCKS5 proxy server at 
   127.0.0.1:44380 just failed. Make sure that the proxy server is up and 
   running.

This will make an interesting reading for everyone interested in privacy:

   http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-how-to-remain-secure-surveillance
   https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorPlusVPN 
   https://tails.boum.org/doc/about/warning/index.en.html 

-- 
Viorel

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