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Meet Algo, your personal VPN in the cloud


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The commercial VPN industry is a minefield to navigate and many open source solutions are a pain to use or ill-suited for the task. Algo VPN, on the other hand, is a self-hosted personal VPN designed for ease of deployment and security. It uses the securest industry standards, builds on rock-solid solutions like WireGuard and Ansible, and runs on an ever-growing list of cloud hosting providers.

On this episode Dan Guido –CEO of security firm Trail of Bits and Algo’s creator– joins Jerod to discuss the project in depth.

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  • Featuring:

    • Dan Guido – GitHub, X
    • Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

    Show Notes:

    • About Trail of Bits
    • Meet Algo, the VPN that works
    • Algo on GitHub
    • Most VPN Services are Terrible
    • An Analysis of the Privacy and Security Risks of Android VPN Permission-enabled Apps (PDF)
    • 101 VPN products run by just 23 companies
    • Every “free” VPN
    • No one is going to risk jail for your $5/mo
    • A story of the entire VPN industry, in 4 acts. Starring NordVPN.
    • WireCutter’s review of the best VPN service for 2019
    • WireGuard
    • Getting 2FA Right in 2019
    • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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