![]() ![]() So a lot of these VPN services - you’re right, start-up costs are pretty minimal. Why would you opt for a self-hosted, “I have to worry about it myself” VPN like Algo, versus one of these commercial VPNs? Why are they all crap? And they’re all advertising or they’re offering ease of use, and other things. I mean, you hear them advertising all over podcasts, and YouTube - NordVPN, ExpressVPN, PureVPN, tigerVPN… The list goes on and on there’s probably a dozen, maybe two dozen popular ones. I think it’s somewhat an easy industry to get into, and then it’s also booming… So there’s competition. And it’s interesting, because there is a boom in VPN services right now. So there are commercial VPNs, and one of the things that you say in there is that they’re all crap, and you link to Kenn White’s Gist, which I’ll also put in our show notes, which goes through some of the pitfalls with commercial VPNs. Algo VPN was announced and still gaining steam… In fact, I’ve found it just a few months back, and I think people are continuing to find it, as interest in VPNs continues to boom. You wrote that announcement in December 2016, so three years ago. In your announcement post you mentioned this isn’t a branding project. You’ve just described Algo VPN - very important, it’s self-hosted, but cloud-enabled… So you self-host it in terms of your own control, but you don’t have to have your own hardware somewhere sitting on a rack… And yet, the alternative to that is available commercial VPNs. And then it’ll show up at my house and I’ll have to be cleaning for weeks. Then sometimes people are like “Oh, this is going to Dan?”, and they’ll strap a glitter bomb to it. Other people will tear off part of that postcard and send back only half of it. Sometimes people pull out their own pen and scribble some extra stuff on the end of it. That’s open to abuse, and it has been abused, by a lot of people. Not only that, but on the other way, when it comes back, somebody can read the response. You’ve written some instructions about “Hey, Comcast, please send me the contents of such-and-such website”, and you scribble it on the outside of a postcard and you send it through the mail system.Īs that postcard goes through the mail system, every single person that handles it can read exactly what you requested. The really easy analogy here is that when you’re talking to a website and you’re not going over a VPN, there’s a chance that what you’re doing is you’re kind of sending them a postcard. I got a lot out of it, and certainly a lot in terms of how do you explain something that people can understand when it’s a complex topic like this one. There’s other folks at Trail of Bits that do a lot of teaching still, and I think it was really like a formative part of my past career. ![]()
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