the case against Home VPNs

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the case against Home VPNs

#1 Post by labbe5 »

https://j0nam1el.wordpress.com/2014/02/ ... home-vpns/

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I ran a home VPN for years. I used Untangle NG Firewall (then, just named “Untangle

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#2 Post by s243a »

This assumes both that you trust your cloud provider and that your application is suitabe for running on the clould. Besides, you don't need to have your media server on your gateway and you don't need to give the VPN the same privlages as the rest of your home network.

Speaking of home VPNs, I was looking at tinc. It seems pretty cool.

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