Alphabet's Cybersecurity Group Touts Its New Open Source Private VPN

guest · Nov 26, 2018

With DigitalOcean, Jigsaw's Private VPN Gives a Line Out to Journalists
November 23, 2018
https://blog.digitalocean.com/digitalocean-outline-jigsaw-vpn/

Enter Outline
Outline is specifically designed to be resistant to censorship. Because of the protocols used, Outline is harder to detect as a VPN, and therefore is less likely to be blocked by countries who take measure to block the flow of content out of their country.

With Outline, said Keyserling, each account uses its own DigitalOcean servers, so you get complete control over your data. Users can create their own private VPN in three easy, self-explanatory steps following the prompts at GetOutline.org.

Outline relies on the Shadowsocks protocol, which is an open-source project to create an encrypted socks5 proxy to redirect internet traffic.
Behind the Curtain
“Outline is about taking something that is very complex and making it simple [...]"
Once the user chooses a server location, Outline spins up a DigitalOcean server on Ubuntu, installs Docker, and imports an image that has the actual server itself. [...]
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mirimir · Nov 26, 2018

This is interesting. VPN through obfuscating proxies is nothing new, for sure. However, it does seem that Shadowsocks has been successful against China's national firewall So this is great news! Especially with a firm like Alphabet promoting it. One must wonder about surveillance by Digital Ocean, of course. But that can be addressed through nested chaining. I'll definitely check it out.

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