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Their biggest problem is they really don't make you much safer, just more inconvenient.

If you're pirating, they make you much safer.

Yeah need to tell that to actual VPN operators

Our VPN service and VPN services in general are not designed to be used to commit illegal activity. It is very naive to think that by paying a subscription fee to a VPN service you are free to break the law without any consequences. This includes certain hardcore privacy services which claim you will never be identified, these types of services that do not cooperate are more likely to have their entire VPN network monitored and tapped by law enforcement, thus affecting all legitimate customers.

https://blog.hidemyass.com/en/...

Time to get into the proxy business. or just an affiliate. :P https://www.hidemyass.com/en-c... ya... bite me

https://www.hidemyass.com/

try this site? https://www.hidemyass.com/ and insert URL

I found and use http://hidemyass.com/vpn/ (no affiliation) - on a yearly plan it's 6.50 per month.

Multiple locations, openssh

We have a niece in Australia who is using HideMyAss.com with Netflix and Hulu and she says it works great. Her boyfriend is German and he tested it at home before meeting her Down Under. They have proxy servers all over the place, so this doesn't just work for content on U.S. servers.

HMA is under US$7/month if you do a yearly contract. A lot easier/cheaper than setting up/maintaining your own.

use http://hidemyass.com/

But every publicly facing server should routinely delete logs that aren't central to the server's main mission. VPS and proxy servers main mission being to protect the anonymity of it's users.

Shouldn't it be considered a fraud, to advertise they you will protect a user's identity, then maintain logs which can be seized by any government agency that demands them?

reason for keeping logs:
"16:32 edit: We have had a few queries as to our logging policies. We only log the time you connect and disconnect from our service, we do not log in any shape or form your actual internet traffic.

21:05 edit: Why do we log the above^ information? Being able to locate abusive users is imperative for the survival of operating a VPN service, if you can not take action to prevent abuse you risk losing server contracts with the underlying upstream providers that empower your network. Common abuse can be anything from spam to fraud, and more serious cases involve terrorism and child porn. The main type of logging is session logging – this is simply logging when a customer connects and disconnects from the server, this identifies who was connected to X IP address at X time, this is what we do and all we do."

makes sense, they have to protect their other customers and themselves, if someone logs in and does kiddie porn or terrorism and HMA doesn't have the logs they'll lose relationships with the other VPN servers they're using. Govt might even just come in and take what servers they do have and shut down the website if HMA doesn't cooperate.

Honestly I think lulzsec was stupid for using their credit card on a VPN service for hacking online, if they thought "Let's be safe, I'll just enter my credit card number...." then they're stupid and deserve what they got. Should have gone anonymous (no credit cards, or at least prepaid) and should have gone through several VPNs in other countries.

Wanna hack anonymously? Buy a used PC, wipe the drive (or install new HD), install OS, use it only for hacking, never put any personal information on it, never check personal email, facebook, forum accounts, bank, credit card, paypal, etc. Create fake email on PC, use fake email to create fake accounts, find free VPNs and go through several of them (at least three). Wipe cookies, temp files, etc after every session. Even better if you buy a used laptop and use wifi at starbucks, mcdonalds, B&N, or open networks from wardriving and switch networks daily.

First go to:
http://www.daveproxy.co.uk/

the use that proxy to access UK proxy:
http://docoja.com/blue/

then use that to access Japanese proxy:
http://www.ejapan.eu/blue

then use that access Hidemyass proxy:
http://hidemyass.com/

then go to slashdot and post Anon!

They'll never find you!!

http://vpn.hidemyass.com/vpncontrol/legal.html

The site is a bit light on decent terms of use information for the free service, but if I sign-up for the pro-service, and use it to break the law, how have HMA committed fraud if they're legally obliged to hand-over what minimal data they log, and they've clearly stated that "Anonymity services such as ours do not exist to hide people from illegal activity..."?

http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/scraper.htm

or

http://hidemyass.com/ -> google.com