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My research into VPNs led me to a strange thing: VPN Gate [0]. It is community run VPN servers, by University of Tsukuba, Japan (6953 Public VPN Relay Servers)
by auslander 7y ago
My research into VPNs led me to a strange thing: VPN Gate [0]. It is community run VPN servers, by University of Tsukuba, Japan (6953 Public VPN Relay Servers) with free public access, Username: 'vpn', Password: 'vpn'. Still trying to grasp what it is :)
[0] https://www.vpngate.net/en/ https://www.vpngate.net/en/
- Renaud 7y agoIt looks interesting and probably without gotcha, but it’s rather naive as it seems to rely on volunteers to act as relay/exit node. I wonder how many ran into trouble due to dubious anonymous traffic exiting their IP...
- auslander 7y agoWhy naive? What is wrong relying on volunteers? Goal is to hide your traffic from ISP and your real IP from internet. Volunteer's VPN do just fine :) > dubious anonymous traffic price of freedom from corps and govs.
- Renaud 7y agoNaive in the sense that they only address issues such as blocking LAN networks and email spam traffic and there is zero mention of what happens when someone anonymously abuse the service. The volunteer effort is laudable and quite refreshing but can a VPN relying on volunteers be ignorant of the risks those volunteers incur when they open their connection to anonymous traffic? I understand that this is an issue that every VPN has to face but there should at least be some mention of how that particular VPN service handles law enforcement and abuse requests, or do they expect the volunteers to face the consequences? Maybe I’m missing that point and it’s clarified somewhere?
- effie 7y agoThe relation to the university seems pretty thin. I can find no mention of this on the official pages of that uni.