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Hello comrades! In light of the fucked up state of the UK govt I'm looking at some VPN options to further harden my homelab.

Right now, I have zero VPN coverage for my seedbox/jellyfin server which of course means a major security hole, even if my ISP hasn't shit over me for it yet.

I had a few questions about selfhosting a VPN versus a third party service.

  1. How does a self hosted VPN actually do anything? I was under the impression that VPNs had to be off-site to give the benefits of, say, location spoofing.

  2. Do I need to pay any subscriptions to other services for a self hosted VPN? At least in order to access features such as location spoofing.

  3. We use Cloudflare WARP at work to access internal services. Will a LAN-VPN Fuck this up even if I explicitly avoid spoofing my location to ensure my IT guy doesnt shit a brick?

thanks cumrades!

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[-] leftAF@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Truly anonymous networking looks like this:

  • Home -> Tor -> VPN/Proxy -> Tor -> VPN/Proxy -> Tor -> Web

If they start restricting VPN technologies, look into the tlsfragment/V2Ray/shadowsocks proxy software out there for the first hop.

Any VPN/Proxy is paid for with Monero via Tor. The network traffic is encrypted to one of the proxy servers with symmetric keys, installed by writing terabytes of data to them via SSH and then uploading a script which pulls the key from some random bytes throughout those terabytes. NSA isn't logging every byte out of terabytes, just start/end & intermittent packets.

I've never found a link to it again but I use something known to me as ts (tombstone, I think?) and it is a virtual driver which I add on the self-hosted proxies/VPNs that effectively forces everything to the pagefile, which is encrypted on a ramdisk volume. They have to be unlocked via KVM though.

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