paid vpn service recommendation as of october '14?

VPN review sites.. Web Archive searches show us it's actually sitting in a former CIA office.. How hilarious - and sad - is that? Nevertheless - honeypots are old.. I remember a major police department here rounded up parole violators by sending them fake coupons. When they showed up to the store to collect the deals, they were arrested.

My old mortgage firm honeypotted me.. One day I was online paying my mortgage, and saw a link that said 'Trouble paying? We want to help!'.. I wasn't having any issue paying it, but I was curious about what the link led to so I clicked it. A couple weeks later I got a letter saying my note was being sold to a 'high risk' wholesaler. A perfect honeypot. Out of principle I refinanced a few weeks later down to a 12 year, less interest, but mostly because I didn't want a high-risk mortgage clearinghouse attached to my credit report.

Honeypots are everywhere. No need to be paranoid. Just aware they exist.

 

now what do the majority of people use a vpn service for? for privacy, anonymity and above all for encryption while on a wi-fi hotspot, right? well this is not the case with purevpn.
it comes out of the box with disabled encryption . and they call it "fast internet mode". go figure.

 

I made a big mistake which I just edited. I meant to type SECURITYKISS vpn. @ Securitykiss.com Just testing things out. That is what I have on PC testing. Boy I can't wait to get rid of the garbage modem/isp and finally pay for a vpn. That will take care of some family member mistakes that were taken advantage of in the form of spam and unsolicited calls.

 

So are you going to tell us which one?

 

Sure. It's also parked in a building with some pretty... Interesting companies. Mainstream media likes to promote this VPN.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2136189

 

hmm, a long-forgotten, godforsaken provider.

 

Thanks

The CIA is up to a lot, it seems ...

 

could a bolehvpn user tell us which design boleh has implemented?

https://www.bolehvpn.net/blog/2014/07/17/help-us-redesign-the-new-bolehvpn-client/

 

I'll give my 2 cents since I haven't posted in a VPN thread for a few years.

I've searched the entire web looking for VPN services. You name it I've searched it.

I've searched the entire dark web, 99% of the .RU forums, most if not all of the black hat hacking forums, all of the white hat hacking forums, I've searched 99% of anonymity and privacy boards and forums and I can honestly say that there are probably 5 VPN PROVIDERS TOATAL at most that actually will respect your rights when the crap hits the fan and they get a warrant or national security letter.

I list those 5 as AirVPN, Mullvad, PRQ, iVPN, & Perfect Privacy.

Those 5 are rock solid and have done and will do anything to make sure no data is handed over to local/state/federal/national authorities

I would rate just behind those 5 the following 3: ZorroVPN, NordVPN & VPN.AC.

They are very good services but just lack something the first 5 I listed have.

I've know some people may disagree but I've found in the russian underground scene & in most of the black hat hacking circles that the VPN's/Socks5 proxy services that are offered to members are just plain rubbish.

They are really poor quality in most cases and cost far too much money per day to use. Most if not all of the I.P's are blacklisted as proxies by security firms or by spamhaus makng them useless for anonymity.

Well I could write another 100 pages but I have things to do so until next time.....

 

Has anyone tried to Vikingvpn ?? Seem to be very focused on privacy and security . I 'm testing and works up very fast. Lacks a custom client .

 

did you use zorrovpn? it looks promising but i'm dubious about this statement in their faq: "ZorroVPN is independent service and it's out of jurisdiction of any government."

 

they don't have a good rep on reddit. but i never used them so i don't know if it's legit.

 

I have zero clue what that might mean. What sort of Internet uplink might they have? A satellite uplink in some failed state? In that case, I wouldn't want to be local tech support But maybe they're on a ship in international waters? Or maybe on Sealand?

 

Yes I have used ZorroVPN for 3 months in the past and found it good and reliable service.

Good number of servers in various off shore locations. Some unique like Isle Of Man, India, Serbia and about 8 Russian servers. Though most servers are on cheap www.edis.at vps servers if you use ipleak.net to find out.

Single-Double-Triple-Quad VPN through a easy web based interface, VPN>TOR chain up to 4 links or TOR>VPN chain up to 4 links. TCP port 80 or 443 or UDP 53 or 1184 OpenVPN configs. Lots of options for your VPN needs.

That statement about being beyond jurisdiction is full of crap but the guy who runs has a good reputation on hacker forums from what I've read. He is vouched on a few boards I've browsed as being trustworthy.

I'd say the service is Russian, Ukraine or CIS based if I had to guess. Just the number of eastern European/RU/CIS/UA servers give me that feeling.

Above all it's a cheap service for about $12 a month. To get a QUAD VPN for that is pretty good.

But I didn't list them in my top 5 because something was lacking from them for a reason.

All configs are are web based and you use OpenVPN to connect. Own client would be of been better.

But there is the option to pay in Bitcoin and I think Litecoin too. So I still have them in my top 10 VPN's.

But that's just my 2 cents. My opinion is worth nothing really. Just posting what I've learned.

 

BTW I am really liking VPN.AC at this moment.

They use SHA512 Perfectforward Secrecy & AES256-CBC in authentication to VPN server.

It's located in Romania. They only keep connection/timestap logs for 1 day and then delete them after which is very honest.

Another service would say we don't keep logs at all. I also get good speeds out of EURO servers close to me like Sweden & Romania & Luxembourg.

These guys really know their OPSEC & CRYPTO I think by going over there terms and conditions and tutorials.

Also they have a very good VPN client but only downside I can see is you have to run a bat file to gain DNS leak prevention on Windows OS's.

They have plans to expand the server network with more servers. Good and fast news updates is also a plus.

 

@ComputerSaysNo : What is your opinion on BolehVPN?

 

or maybe...
"out of jurisdiction of any government" = see-eye-a

 

after browsing thru their website, one gets to think of them that way.

 

actually, that batch script is for enabling ip leak protection. it does that by deleting default gateway upon execution.

 

they're ok but a bit overpriced for what they offer. they're the best choice for users in far east, especially for torrenters. the best thing about them is their very friendly tech support.

 

Overpriced? Some of the services listed by the top-8 list of ComputerSaysNo are more expensive. I just wonder why they are not in his top-8 list

 

overpriced for what they offer. aes 128 with some of their configs, single-hop servers, no alternative ports and no unconditional money back guarantee. here's their refund policy:

it's more of a basic service compared to others, except for nordvpn and perfect privacy. those two are below average.
most of the boleh's customers are torrenters. they are not as privacy oriented as prq, airvpn, ivpn or mullvad. but they are a trustworthy and solid provider. they have a very friendly support.

 

What imdb said about BolehVPN rings true. They are a bit overpriced for the service they deliver.

Standard encryption by todays standards and limited number of servers. Saying that Boleh is a trustworthy VPN.

They have great tech support in Rubben and the team and allow torrents on most servers.

Boleh just slipped out of the top 8 VPN's I would use at this moment mainly because of it's higher priced plans than most providers.

I have had a 1 year subscription to BolehVPN in the past and found them easy to use.

BolehVPN's own VPN client is really good and I'm interested to see what these DNS changes are going to be about.

You do get what you pay for though IMHO. Security/Anonymity/Privacy comes at a cost and you need to pay it.

That's why some of my top 8 VPN providers cost a little more than your average setup. But they are worth it!

All of my top 8 VPN providers take Bitcoin or Litecoin or even cash in the mail.

That's what separates the could have beens from the good VPN's. Anonymous payment.

And encryption of course! You can't forget encryption. It is key to anonymity/privacy!

 

The reason I chose Perfect Privacy and NordVPN in my top 8 was alt-coin payment options/multiple server locations/Multi-VPN connection options like TOR>VPN and QUAD VPN/& code or make their own VPN client software that is easily useable.

And the fact they are located in Germany & Panama respectively. Both countries are known for privacy laws.

They might be average VPN's compared to Mullvad, AirVPN, PRQ, iVPN but they are still good anonymity providers.

The cream does rise to the top with paid VPN's and I only recommend what I have used and tested in my time.

 

I would argue that our service is pretty privacy oriented, perhaps more so than some of the others listed.

Total PKI infrastructure, AES-256 is the default now except for surfing streaming servers. Additional obfuscation options including packet scrambling features.

We don't use third party DNSes anymore in most case and host our own internal secured DNS.

The only thing we don't have is multi hop VPNs which we would question how useful they actually are and add a great deal of slowness and unreliability and more failure points. You can always use Tor while on a VPN as well if u really want multi hop

Take Bitcoin and Dashpay (formerly Darkcoin).

Thanks for the votes of confidence though! Appreciate it a lot! Most importantly, we are still in an offshore location. We are also taking steps to relocate our company off from Malaysia as well.