Is Hotspot Shield safe?

[DeadEye]

i was thinking about using this program called hotspot shield on my laptop when i travel. it claims that people can not see your personal information when you are using a public internet source but could the person that makes it see what you are doing and steal your private information?

here is the link to it and a description

hotspotshield.com

have any of you used this product before?

[AboveTheLogic]

never used it before

I think a good way to go is to setup a VPN on your home connection, that gives you an encrypted tunnel to your home connection and then you are just as secure as you would be at home

[DeadEye]

Originally Posted by AboveTheLogic

never used it before

I think a good way to go is to setup a VPN on your home connection, that gives you an encrypted tunnel to your home connection and then you are just as secure as you would be at home

how would i do this on a mac?

[AboveTheLogic]

sorry but I have no idea!

I could tell you how to do it with XP Pro and 2003 server.

[wimiadmin]

Perhaps Clanmills could chime in on this one. He's a Mac user.

In the meantime, here's an older article, but it still may apply or at least give you enough guidance to get it working.

http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/ma...12/20/vpn.html

[JoshuaXiong]

Oh that program look familiar. I have it on my usb! Yes I believe it is safe. I have spot no open proxy on it. It's a daily fast proxy changing once per day.

[aziernest]

Having a look at site, and reading "100% Security Through a VPN" seems like it's safe to use, and ofcourse the site / software owner may have logging enabled and can look into what you are doing in a similar way that your ISP's can do!