BYOV – Er…Bring Your Own VPN
Is your Internet access blocked by your company’s web filter an oppressive Communist government? Maybe you’re just looking for a way to protect your wireless traffic when you jump online from a cafe? You could always use The Onion Router (TOR) but access speeds tend to be slow and since there’s no way to control what your source IP is going to be when you exit to the ‘net, pages like Google and Wikipedia will try to customize results in your language. If you don’t read German or Vietnamese, this can present a problem.
The question came up recently, “Can’t I just buy VPN access from someone?” Well, it turns out that you can.
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Relakks – 1 month € 5,00 or 12 months € 45,00
- Cotse.net – $5.95 a month for standard access or add a high speed socks proxy for $9.95
Of course, real geeks will use other methods to circumvent filtering – but real geeks wouldn’t ask about buying a pre-packaged VPN service.