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I use a VPN - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/ and I have been meaning to ask folks here if they have experience with the VPN service or is there anyone better out there.

They claim that they do not log at all.

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I use them as well, but I find that I have a hard time trusting them. They haven't done anything to lose my trust, but nor have they done anything to gain it; they could just as easily be logging my every move, and I'd never know. But I can't really see a way around it, so I'll continue to do so and use end-to-end encryption when possible.

This is the exact same problem I have with DuckDuckGo.

I still use them, but they could be logging everything, for all I know.

It would be great if they were regularly and frequently audited by a third-party who has earned widespread trust and respect, like the EFF. Not that the EFF is in the audit business. But serious auditing of sites that claim to respect privacy is sorely needed.

Absolutely! I second the opinion of them being audited by EFF or similar reputed organization.

I just blogged about my chat with them - http://writing.amanjeev.com/2013/06/my-chat-with-private-int...

I use PrivateInternetAccess as well, they make it pretty easy and I'm able to log multiple boxes on at once (my HTPC, laptop, Mac Pro) without them complaining.

http://torrentfreak.com/which-vpn-providers-really-take-anon...

I also stack on Little Snitch, Adblock and Facebook Block (to stop Facebook from loading its iframes on sites that are not facebook).

Thanks, I started using the tools you had mentioned and it made things a little better for my paranoid self. I always needed something like Little Snitch.

I just run an OpenVPN server on a VPS that I use for other stuff as well. It works well, but I really only use it to secure public wifi and to keep my ISP out of my traffic since they started ridiculous policies like 6strikes.

I always assumed that a VPN would significantly degrade connection speeds, but it's turned out to only be a change of 20ms or less.

Where is your VPS hosted?

Linode currently, but that is likely to change. Their cheapest hosting is also extreme overkill if you're just using it for VPN.

I use btguard because they also claim not to keep logs and a lot of people seem to believe them. But for all I know they could be a front for the FBI. And that's not the worst case scenario.

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