torrentfreak.com — A company called SecureIX is offering a free VPN service which allows you to hide your IP address from peers in a BitTorrent swarm or P2P network. Not only that, the service also encrypts and tunnels your data, making it extremely difficult for your ISP to sniff or shape it.
Feb 4, 2007 View in Crawl 4
1baseman1Feb 5, 2007
I used the vpn during the weekend, it did help in term of download speed fro bittorrent. (I'm using Rogers too, in Canada, since Feb 1st, encryption is no longer working for Rogers) if anyone interesting what VPN is go check: <a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VPN">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VPN</a>all right, now everyone knows...................wondering how long SecureIX will keep this free ($/speed limit)
deadbabyFeb 5, 2007
Sshhhhh
gloc9Feb 5, 2007
The founder of the site or the admin is chatting it up with peeps over at broadband help. I didn't see any questions regarding security so dunno if it'll help.<a class="user" href="http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17574973~days=9999~start=20">http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17574973~days=9999~start=20</a>
alchemistaFeb 6, 2007
SecureIX, brought to you by the RIAA and FBINow we can be absolutely certain that it is you who are pirating those files since we now have a trusted connection with you that you signed up for!
drunkmuppetFeb 6, 2007
"As soon as you connect to our VPN server your computer is assigned a new IP address, an IP address that is owned by us, not your ISP. Then all of your Internet traffic is encrypted and is tunneled to our VPN server. Once there, it is decrypted and allowed to travel to its intended destination. Your local ISP will only see a single encrypted data stream between you and our VPN server. Your ISP can no longer monitor, log or control your Internet usage."So basically you are putting all your trust in a company that promises no guarentee of securing your information. They say your data is encrypted, then sent to THEIR servers where it's decrypted and sent to it's destination. The first questions you should be asking is....who is secureix? whats their motivation? Who's really pulling the strings...?The internet has little to no regulation...who's to say it's not the FBI funding this.... Theirs no entrapment here, you are signing up under your own free will and willingly sending your DATA to their servers. My suggestions... don't download torrents, and don't access your bank records/financials.....SKETCHY....
mi1400Feb 13, 2007
All are talking about Dialup, how can we use use it on LAN, i have configured on LAN (Linux transparent proxy) but i am getting disconeection error-800, both on vpn.secureix.com and vpn-nf.secureix.com.First i ws getting this error after some 15-30 seconds now i get the error as soon i hit the connect.Note HTTP-Tunnel, eMule Obfuscation and Bitorrent all blocked.How do i manage my way out.Thanks.
weedahoeFeb 15, 2007
Their website went down yesterday and still isnt back up today so that may be an indication on why you cannot connect to/through them.
joeanonJan 7, 2009
VPN will cut through most throttling but it won't help you overcome a max bandwidth usage policy.They could limit traffic to the site, since it blatantly gives away VPN for the purpose of getting P2P through traffic shaping. However, you could use a less obvious site or rent and setup your own legit VPN using a simple VPS hosting service. Then you openVPN to it and poof. I think you'd be safe from most any throttling beside max bandwidth like that. But, VPN isn't the most convenient thing to use, SSL works also. Hopefully the clients will just incorporate these features and we will all be VPN/SSL/whatever encryption tunnels.VPS is likely more expensive and the hosting company will surely keep logs. They could even report you themselves.So, the case for cheap overseas VPN makes sense, but who can you trust ?
joeanonJan 7, 2009
I would guess the free ones should not be trusted, but pay VPN's might be ok. public anon networks are nice, when they are fast enough. I haven't tried in awhile, but last I did they sucked entirely. Tor will ban you if you torrent much over it for instance.
joeanonJan 7, 2009
Well if I was running a service like that I would make my TOS look legit also, but that doesn't mean it would be my actual policy.Honestly, why would you dare guarantee anything ? And you probably don't want to mention you support p2p. Just let the users find out.Running your own person VPS sounds safer to me. Get one from some asian nation that doesn't give a s**t about copyrights and then use openVPN to tunnel to it. But, VPS's are more expensive and you can bet those hosts keep all their logs along with potentially looking down on torrenting.