School of Privacy

“vpnautoconnect is a daemon that allow you to reconnect automatically (at startup too) a vpn create with network manager.It can reconnect very quickly and monitor the bandwith, It works with pptp and openvpn connection.”

VPNAUTOCONNECT

Don’t you hate when your VPN connection drops? do you worry about your privacy being leaked when your downloading a torrent?

This is a really great tool to help with that problem for linux users.

and it has a nice GUI and daemon to manage it which is perfect for new linux users trying to secure themselves online.

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Färist Micro from Swedish company Tutus is a tiny VPN device that fits in the palm of your hand and sits in between your computer and Internet connection. The A100 model has a shock resistant case made of aluminium and carbon fibre, with two Ethernet RJ45 ports, the standard port for a wired Internet connection, Färist Micro can be powered with an USB cable or via a separate power supply, both included, the A200 model is slightly bigger but it has better performance and status LED indicators showing VPN activity, the product security core is based on other evaluated Färist products and compatible with their suite of network security solutions, like a firewall.

The user interface has basic administrative functions accessible via web browser, with this tiny portable VPN device company employees can safely communicate over untrusted networks

                             Read The Article Over At Hacker10

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> Do you keep any logs IP Addresses, Timestamp, Bandwidth cap, traffic or other data?

 We are required, according to the local as well as EU privacy laws, *not* to store the transferred data including visited URLs so this is information we simply cannot disclose as we are not even allowed to store it, and we do not store it.

We are required to store information about the fact that you used our service such as the amount of data you transferred in a given session, and we are required to store this information for at least 6 but no longer than 12 months. We delete this data after 6 months. Again, the actual data transfer is not being stored.

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> Do you keep any logs IP Addresses, Timestamp, Bandwidth cap, traffic or other data? 

Just the basic to troubleshoot connection issues, user ip, time, etc. No user activity logs.

> What type of encryption do you use?

User can choose up to 128bit.

> and where are your servers located and what jurisdiction do you operate under? 

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> Do you keep any logs IP Addresses, Timestamp, Bandwidth cap, traffic or other data?

We maintain minimal logs (connection errors, partial stack traces, and sometimes IP addresses) in order to ensure service quality, detect bugs, and improve software which is how we’ve managed to become the world’s second largest VPN provider. However, we push over 20 petabytes of data per month on our network so there is no possible way we would be able to log our user’s session logs. On the server side all of our services are built to run on RAM disks and none of our servers ever use magnetic storage. Diagnostic logs are purged typically after 30 days. Our servers,firewalls,switches, and routers are owned and managed by us and sit in our own racks in Tier-1 data centers that have robust security controls.We do not lease virtual servers or use “cloud services” like most VPN providers which are vulnerable to third party intercept.  There is no bandwidth cap and we record the number of “trackers” and pieces of malware we block for each user (total number only) and we store the total amount of bandwidth saved for our mobile users. As an added benefit our CEO has held a CISSP for over 10 years, has published research of major security vulnerabilities and all of our employees have engineering degrees related to computer science so architecting for security and privacy is always at the core of our operations.

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