What do you mean? security/openvpn has been in the ports tree for ages and works just fine.
What are your needs?
My answer in short is 'total internet security that surpasses https'.
Doesn't exist, unless you unplug.
Why do you think SSL/TLS isn't enough? What makes you think a VPN is any better? What do you think a VPN will protect you against that an SSL/TLS connection can't?
Uhm, go figure… ?
I think you need to worry a lot more about company's tracking you everywhere than governments or law enforcement. And those companies don't track you based on IP addresses. If you're on the radar of a government or law enforcement they're going to find you regardless of that VPN. That's exactly what I mean by many of these VPN providers selling you snake-oil, it feeds a false sense of security.
That's not what these VPN companies are selling you though.
You're putting your trust in some other company, that's really all you're doing. Otherwise it's just your ISP. I trust my ISP a lot more than I do any of those so-called VPN "privacy" providers. My ISP is a Dutch company, it has to abide by Dutch law, so I know exactly what they can and cannot do. I can also easily take them to court if I can prove they're doing something they shouldn't. Now, try doing the same with some of these companies, that are in another country, having to abide by other laws and regulations. Laws and regulations I don't know.
Conflicts are expensive and complicated, especially when crossing country borders. We've decided to sign up for an insurance that covers legal fees as an additional layer of safety, which grants us the financial muscles to refute any requests for information.
In the case of any third party demanding information about our customers, we are fully prepared to go to court and will do everything in our power to prevent anyone from getting access to customer information.Not paedophilia or the dark web , if that's what you are implying, just plain & simple internet security at its best.
That's basically exactly what I said, in all points. IOW, I just completely agreed with you
I was talking about better methods for tracking you. Nobody trying to track users will look at the network address. Cookies are an important part, but not the only thing used…
That's nothing a VPN could (even remotely) help with. Apart from what VPNs are designed for (which is, again, securely connecting over the untrusted internet to a private network), the advertized use is "privacy", and that's at least very questionable, see above. If you need that on "level paranoid", better have a look at e.g. TOR.
Those VPNs aren't going to protect you against rogue websites (or ads) that exploit weaknesses in your browser for example. But a lot of them are sold as some sort of "magic armor" that will make your internet connection bulletproof.
Crime and criminal activity has always existed and will continue to exist for eternity. Even the most deplorable stuff. Every piece of technology will eventually be used or abused by criminals. They too evolve just like the rest of us.
Not even that, half of the path will stay unencrypted. On the web, only correctly deployed TLS gives sane protection. And if it's about "privacy", manage cookies, scripts and so on, and be careful with your own data. And as stated above, if even revealing your network address is somehow a problem → TOR.
I get to try and quash the subpoena and maybe publicly embarrass whomever is trying to get at my data, that's what. A "cloud" provider is likely to just hand over my data and not even tell me they did.
The other thing a VPN allows you to do is pretend to be somewhere you're not. Netflix is the most trivial case, but there are serious use cases for those unfortunate enough to live in countries with repressive governments.
Well, for repressive governments, it's not "prentending to be somwhere else" but "getting through whatever blocking they employ". But yes, that's indeed a use case. The one time I travelled to China, I made sure I had OpenVPN installed on my android phone and able to connect to my endpoint at home
Well, Nord did stop using the "Military Grade" buzzword and switched to "Next-Generation Encryption" after word got out people were on to that.
