Route Shield

Discussion in 'privacy technology' started by HeiDef, Dec 25, 2020.

  1. HeiDef

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    Route Shield is an application that provides per-process routing for DNS, proxy and VPN connections. With Route Shield you can force a program to use DNS-Over-HTTPS, DNS-Over-TLS, SOCKS4/5 proxies or specific VPN connections. This way, you have precise control over how a program communicates on the network.

    There are a number of use cases for Route Shield. First and foremost is to add a controllable layer of privacy to any applications network activity. But from a more practical point-of-view, it is great for those of you that work at home with a corporate VPN but would like to separate your traffic without having to resort to VMs.

    Route Shield is one of our newer tools that we are releasing and we are now providing 30-day trial licenses for anyone interested. It is not quite ready for wide distribution yet (hence the 30-day trial) but with additional user testing and feedback, we hope to get it out soon. Please send an email to beta@heidef.com if you would like a trial license key (and please be patient, it may take some time before you get your key). Do not just respond to this thread asking for a license key.

    You can read more about Route Shield here (https://www.heidef.com/products/rs/index.html). Note that Route Shield only supports Windows 10. Due to some changes that Microsoft will soon be implementing relating to driver signing, we have no plans to support older Windows versions.
     
  2. sdmod

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    I find it hard to support this product (although it sounds quite good) because it immediately wants to comply with imposed regulation that will exclude vast numbers of operating system users because they won't 'dance' to a monopolistic 'tune'.
     
  3. HeiDef

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  4. sdmod

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    It's just not the 'route' that I want to take and I hold a hope that my way of reasoning will 'shield' me from bowing and bending at every turn to the controlling excesses of monopolistic endeavour. I guess I'm an anti subjugationist or at least, I'm not one who wants to help to propogate and perpetuate my own subjugation by those who do not hold my best interests or concerns, at heart, as core principles of their operation.
    I'm not a big fan of people or corporate entities, who threaten, any level of 'independence' that I've managed to achieve in life and try to diminish by philosophy, intention and policy, with 'platform exclusivity' and by the usual means of 'carrot and stick', my hard won 'wiggle room', to further their own ends.
    I am also not a great supporter of the camp followers who seem to loudly advocate the benefits of 'carrot' but with a blinkered ignorance of 'stick' in the algorithm of control and defend proudly, something that they refer to, as 'freedom of choice'.

    I find it odd, that a software manufacturer should want me to use an Operating System (that I don't like) (because it has all sorts of inbuilt privacy problems and other drawbacks and is part of a monopoly and which forces everything else out of the way by an insistence on a particular modus operandi) and replace my operating system (that I do like), in order to use their software on (what I regard as) an increasingly monopolized, demanding and insecure platform and then argue the benefits of that move.

    If the secondary software developers are slaves to and limited and hamstrung by a corporation who's choice is only an exclusive operating system and manipulated platform with monopoly on certificates, usage terms etc, then how can they look askance at me when I question their raison d'etre when they say that they are promoting privacy etc..

    'I'll have a big burger with fries, hold the grease.'
    'Look, don't mess me about mister, I'm busy! Do you want a burger with fries or not?'
    'I think that you're in the wrong town, mister'
    'See that one Mary, some sort of subversive'
    'Wrong town Mary, wrong town.'
    'Yup'






     
  5. digmor crusher

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    Eventually you'll have no choice, you'll have to run W10 or W11 or whatever its called at the time. Its a loosing battle.
     
  6. Buddel

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    Supporting dead (or soon-to-be dead) operating systems doesn't make any sense at all. @digmor crusher is absolutely right; clinging stubbornly to unsupported OSes is definetely a losing battle.
     
  7. plat

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    I hate monopolies and the at-times "my way or the highway" attitude but the reality is "now." Tilting at windmills is for some other context.

    Thanks for the info, HeiDef. It seems relevant for the work-at-home era we're currently in.
     
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