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Secure Tunnel

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m1ldslide1

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http://www.secure-tunnel.com/

I'm looking to sign up for usenet.com, and they recommend this secure-tunnel service for privacy. The secure tunnel website is actually promoting their service for all internet surfing. It basically works by establishing an SSH session between your PC and the secure-tunnel proxy server, and then decrypts traffic from there to wherever you want to go. The idea being that your ISP can't track your internet surfing, so when the Patriot Act looks to put the smackdown it's very limited. Although it seems like they could subpeona Secure Tunnel's records if they wanted to, so I'm a little confused about what this service actually gets you in terms of privacy.

Sounds good in theory, but does anybody know about how responsive their service is? If I'm having to go through their proxy, then any issues they're having internally will mess this up. Also if I'm downloading files (freeware and itunes music store of course) will this noticeably affect my download speeds?

Just curious. Thanks
 
What it means is you are putting all your surfing to somebody else that can track, log, read and pretty much do anything they want with your information.

No thanks.
 
Originally posted by: spidey07
What it means is you are putting all your surfing to somebody else that can track, log, read and pretty much do anything they want with your information.

No thanks.
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No one does anything like that though.
 
The whole thing is an Enigma to me, people seems to relate to this issue in a strange backward way.

The question one should ask himself is when I need security and what is the best way to go about.

It is very rare that the answer would be the usage of such service.

The proliferation of these services thrives mainly due to ignorance and media scared tactic about the Internet.

Encrypt Proxy or not, they cam not protect you from the most common Internet deceives that come through email and false advertising.

They do not protect one from his own illegal activities (if any) since their logs can be subpoena to gather with the ISP logs.


 
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