Sponsored by Linode! Get $20 credit for your first cloud server or VPS here: https://linode.com/wolfgang Text version: https://notthebe.ee/Creating-your-own… OpenVPN road warrior installer by Nyr: https://github.com/Nyr/openvpn-install Support the channel: Patreon http://patreon.com/WolfgangsChannel Follow me: Twitter https://twitter.com/notthebeeee GitHub https://github.com/notthebee Music: Falls – Triboro Memory Theory – Polymath Falls – Magenta Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 00:33 “But I only use VPN for Netflix…” 01:28 Everything wrong with the VPN services 01:49 “Your ISP is spying on you!” 02:27 “Open Wi-Fi networks are dangerous!” 02:39 Military Encryption ™ 03:28 “We will never keep logs or sell your data!” 04:03 PureVPN and Schroedinger’s logs 05:09 PrivateInternetAccess acquisition 05:23 NordVPN 2018 breach 05:50 What are the alternatives? 06:00 Tor 07:25 Self-hosted VPN 07:39 VPN services vs. Self-hosted VPNs 08:58 Choosing a VPS provider 09:18 Virtualisation technology 09:49 Dedicated IPv4 address 10:11 Location 10:43 My choice of the VPS provider 11:25 Creating an account (The tutorial starts here) 11:45 Creating a VPS 12:37 Generating SSH keys 13:46 Updating the packages 14:07 Creating a non-root user 15:04 Configuring SSH 17:14 Installing and configuring OpenVPN 20:50 Installing mosh 21:14 Two-factor authentication 23:53 Automatic updates 25:11 Conclusion
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Welcome to the comment section! Please read the FAQ before leaving a comment: Q: How do you know that the VPS doesn’t keep the logs? Isn’t that the same as trusting a VPN service? A: Every Internet gateway can potentially log and monitor your traffic. A VPN (be that a VPN service or a self-hosted VPN) doesn’t give you extra privacy or anonymity and can potentially monitor your activity. Instead, if you need some extra privacy while browsing the Internet, you should use Tor 06:00 As I mentioned in my last video, VPNs should be used to avoid censorship, geoblocks and DMCA letters, but they won’t magically make you more secure and anonymous. Q: Are you only recommending a VPS as a solution because you were sponsored by Linode? A: No. I’ve been using a self-hosted VPN since 2017 and am currently using a VPS from another company. I’ve also been approached by a several VPN companies that offered to sponsor my videos; I politely refused their offers because such sponsorship will go against my point of view on VPN services. Linode is one of the biggest VPS providers on the market and I’m glad they sponsored this video, however you can always choose another VPS to host your VPN: DigitalOcean, Vultr, Hetzner, etc. Q: But doesn’t a self-hosted VPN make you more identifiable since you’re the only user? A: Unlike a VPN service, on a self-hsoted VPN you get a dedicated IP that isn’t shared with any other users. However, a shared IP on a VPN service doesn’t give you more privacy: you still use your real IP to connect to it, and your account has a unique identifiable set of keys. In both cases if a certain government agency were interested in your online activities, it would require requesting logs from the provider, and in case of Linode (or any VPS provider) the authorities would only retrieve connection logs (e.g. when you connected to the VPS from your IP address) – so pretty much the same as with a VPN service. In both cases the authorities can also request logs from the data center providers or hit the service with a FISA warrant if they reside in the US. Q: Is this tutorial only going to work for Linode? A: No, this tutorial applies to any KVM- (and possibly Xen-) based VPS. The only part that’s going to be different is the process of creating an account, which is pretty easy.
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