I thought I'd give some more links & services for "VPN" connectivity. This way you can connect safely without anyone sniffing out your passwords (it's REAL easy too!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firesheep)*.
http://www.vpngate.net/en/about_overview.aspx (client + server software).
Copy-Paste from their email to me:
"Hello devnullius,
This e-mail is sent for registered users of PacketiX.NET service.
PacketiX.NET Secure Online Service
http://www.packetix.net/en/secure/ will be terminated soon.
As the successor service, "VPN Gate Public VPN Relay Server" service
http://www.vpngate.net/ was launched today.
"VPN Gate" service is similar to PacketiX.NET, however VPN Gate supports also iPhone, iPad, Android and Mac OS X with L2TP/IPsec or OpenVPN Protocol. VPN Gate is a strong alternative to PacketiX.NET.
Please visit
http://www.vpngate.net/ for more information.
Additionally, today we launched the "SoftEther Project" web site at
http://www.softether.org/.
The initial release of "SoftEther VPN" software is released as freeware.
SoftEther VPN Freeware supports not only SSL-VPN, but also OpenVPN, L2TP/IPsec and SSTP VPN protocols. English, Simplified Chinese and Japanese version is available. Please visit
http://www.softether.org/ and learn about SoftEther VPN.
SoftEther VPN is an optimum alternative to OpenVPN and Microsoft's VPN servers. SoftEther VPN has a clone-function of OpenVPN Server. You can integrate from OpenVPN to SoftEther VPN smoothly. SoftEther VPN is faster than OpenVPN. SoftEther VPN also supports Microsoft SSTP VPN for Windows Vista / 7 / 8. No more need to pay expensive Windows Server license-fee for Remote-Access VPN function.
SoftEther VPN can be used to realize BYOD (Bring your own device) on your business. If you have smartphones, tablets or laptop PCs, SoftEther VPN's L2TP/IPsec server function helps you to establish a remote-access VPN from remote to your local network. SoftEther VPN's L2TP VPN Server has strong compatible with Windows, Mac, iOS and Android.
SoftEther VPN is not only an alternative VPN server to existing VPN products (OpenVPN, IPsec and MS-SSTP). SoftEther VPN has also original strong SSL-VPN protocol to penetrate any kinds of firewalls. Ultra-optimized SSL-VPN Protocol of SoftEther VPN has very fast throughput, low latency and firewall resistance.
SoftEther VPN has strong resistance against firewalls than ever. Built-in NAT-traversal penetrates your network admin's troublesome firewall for overprotection. You can setup your own VPN server behind the firewall or NAT in your company, and you can reach to that VPN server in the corporate private network from your home or mobile place, without any modification of firewall settings. Any deep-packet inspection firewalls cannot detect SoftEther VPN's transport packets as a VPN tunnel, because SoftEther VPN uses Ethernet over HTTPS for camouflage.
Easy to imagine, design and implement your VPN topology with SoftEther VPN. It virtualizes Ethernet by software-enumeration. SoftEther VPN Client implements Virtual Network Adapter, and SoftEther VPN Server implements Virtual Ethernet Switch. You can easily build both Remote-Access VPN and Site-to-Site VPN, as expansion of Ethernet-based L2 VPN. Of course, traditional IP-routing L3 based VPN can be built by SoftEther VPN.
SoftEther VPN has strong compatibility to today's most popular VPN products. It has the interoperability with OpenVPN, L2TP, IPsec, EtherIP, L2TPv3, Cisco VPN Routers and MS-SSTP VPN Clients. SoftEther VPN is the world's only VPN software which supports SSL-VPN, OpenVPN, L2TP, EtherIP, L2TPv3 and IPsec, as a single VPN software.
You can download SoftEther VPN Freeware from
http://www.softether.org/ since today.
SoftEther Project & VPN Gate Project at University of Tsukuba, Japan.
Note: The sender's e-mail address "orgmail@softether.org" cannot respond.
You can ask a question on the forum
http://forum.vpngate.net/ about VPN Gate Service."
They only offer (currently) 1 USA line, only @ 1.2Mb BUT the service is BRANDNEW. IN TOTAL ONLY 250 connected users spread over more than 60 servers... US currently has 1 (me;p).
So join them - no registration either! From Japan university so might be safe too! ; ))
Karma...
Devvie
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* ANY user in the same wifi network can read ALL password cookies when NOT encrypted. To defend yourself, use https. Chrome users could use:
http://www.chromestory.com/2010/10/how-to-protect-your-login-information-from-firesheep-on-chrome/