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Fontaine · Apr 18, 2009

SteveTX said:

Looks can be deceiving. Everyone is trying to sell "anonymous" VPN service nowadays, but only two or three providers sell the real deal, the rest is all snakeoil. I'll show you with some simple examples using their own advertising on that one image:

1. No speed limits + unlimited transfer means they are going to oversubscribe their service. They won't need a "speed limit", there won't be enough resources when your traffic is competing with everyone elses, and your speed will get slower and slower.

Why is this true? Upstream bandwidth costs about $4-$10/megabit per month. If US citizens have an average of 2 megabits, that means their cost of service for them is at least $8/user under their claim. At a price of $7.8 per month, they are either in the business of giving away free money, or they aren't being truthful about what they are offering. There is no such thing as a free lunch. Considering the pricing structure, this may just be a reseller of Relakks.

2. They claim on the left they use 256-bit crypto, and on the right they are using 128-bit. Not that it really matters, but if you can't get your story straight in your ads, it makes me doubt the credibility and competence, and therefore how secure the service actually is.

3. They claim anonymity, but it is almost certainly a single-hop/single-country service (especially according to their diagram), which makes it very misleading in the least since they can't actually provide anonymity.

4. "No Logs" and "strongest privacy" is going to be wrong also, since they are US based. Well, at least until they get their first subpoena, then they don't have a choice.

5. Exactly what VPN technology are they using? Does it work by SSH, PPTP, IPSEC, OpenVPN, L2TP, or DLL Injection? Does it capture all your traffic, or just your web surfing? can it be bypassed? Can we see the source code?

6. They claim that nothing can be used to link you, which is an outright lie for anyone who knows the slightest thing about anonymity.
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+1 for Steve's response. He may push Xerobank a lot, but his analysis is good...and when it comes to security, it's better to be skeptical and try to pick apart a product, rather than just accepting it for what the company says.

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