Travel VPN Routers compared to OpenWRT Rasberry Pi (simplifiedprivacy.com)

submitted 6 months ago by bluedoves@monero.town to c/privacyguides@lemmy.one

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Travel routers with VPN or Tor allow you to avoid trusting the DNS from WiFi ISPs and cell phone towers. Some even let you plugin USB modems and switch MAC addresses to help bypass WiFi captchas on multiple devices. This article compares GL.inet to a Rasberry Pi with OpenWRT, and can give you some ideas for privacy and security for whatever choices you make:

https://simplifiedprivacy.com/glinet/

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[-] mateomaui@reddthat.com 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I have the GL.inet Beryl router, absolutely the best addition to my travel tech. I’ve considered upgrading to a newer model for faster vpn for torrents, but this can still easily run off a 2.4v usb battery pack and handles everything reasonably.

[-] jet@hackertalks.com 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

A second Android phone running lineage or calyxos is a excellent travel router. These OSes allow you to share the VPN via tethering.

Also, if you're worried about GLI.net's software, you could just install vanilla open WRT on it.

[-] jet@hackertalks.com 1 points 6 months ago

The commentary on telegram confused me. If you're worried about telegram requiring SMS authentication for new accounts, running a telegram account across a VPN across tor doesn't change that. Does it?

[-] bluedoves@monero.town 1 points 6 months ago

Author of the article I believe meant the end user was using a crypto-burner SMS verification, such as the ones on this list: https://simplifiedprivacy.com/burners/

Then combined with Tor is fully anonymous. It depends obviously on what you want to achieve

[-] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 months ago

Do you know if all models are compatible with OpenWRT vanilla firmware?

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