Meet Algo, your personal VPN in the cloud (Interview)

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 – 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

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