Good tip about Cloudflare. I intend to look into them.

The NY Times published an article yesterday, associated loosely with a
Wirecutter review, that talks about being cautious about choosing a VPN
provider and about checking to see if the one you are looking at has been
recently acquired. They gave an example of PIA (which I've used in the
past) being acquired by a British security firm that has been called out
for adding malware in some of their products.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/06/technology/personaltech/are-vpns-worth-it.html
https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-vpn-service/

The article closes with a suggestion to use the open source Algo and set it
up on your own Amazon cloud server.

https://github.com/trailofbits/algo


On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 12:02 PM Graeme Williams <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Cloudflare has a VPN called WARP which you can find at 1.1.1.1
>
> It's free, and it's simple to install.  There are versions for Windows,
> Linux, Mac, Android and Apple.
>
> You don't need to run it on a VM if you don't want to.  It's simple to turn
> on and off.
>
> Graeme Williams
> Las Vegas, NV
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 8:45 AM Julia Bauder <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > I test off-campus access by using 4G on my phone. As a bonus, it means I
> > get to see how well the resource works on a mobile-sized screen!
> >
> > Julia
> >
> > _____________________________________________________
> > Julia Bauder
> > Social Studies and Data Services Librarian
> > Grinnell College Libraries
> > 1111 6th Ave.
> > Grinnell, IA 50112
> > 641-269-4431
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 10:16 AM Catherine Smith <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> > > We are researching new methods for testing off-campus access of our
> > > E-Resources.  We currently use the HMA VPN on a virtual machine, but it
> > has
> > > become increasingly slow and unreliable.  Does anyone have a product or
> > > procedure that you are using the works well that you would recommend?
> > >
> > > Many thanks!
> > >
> > > --Catherine
> > >
> > > Catherine Smith, MLIS | she/her/hers
> > > Coordinator of Metadata | Assistant Professor
> > > University Libraries, Resource Acquisition & Discovery
> > > The University of Alabama
> > > Phone 205-348-1516
> > > [log in to unmask] | https://lib.ua.edu
> > >
> > >
> >
>