<story><title>The impossible task of creating a “best VPNs” list</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/06/aiming-for-anonymity-ars-assesses-the-state-of-vpns-in-2016/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bitL</author><text>So what&amp;#x27;s the best way to browse anonymously these days? Is it running a hypervised OS (some hardened GNU Linux&amp;#x2F;BSD Unix variant?) with a randomly changed LAN MAC upon every boot, connected to a VPN operating outside US with OpenVPN &amp;amp; 4k PK (e.g. in Romania), browsing using TorBrowser with NoScript and WebGL turned off? Or even two VPNs at the same time, one in the base OS, the other in the hypervised one?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jrcii</author><text>Drive to a state you don&amp;#x27;t live in, boot Tails from CD-ROM, connect to a hacked VPN account through someone else&amp;#x27;s wifi, then run everything through Tor. Then make sure you&amp;#x27;re using default browser configuration and resolution as not to be foiled a la panopticlick. Even then I wouldn&amp;#x27;t be so sure you&amp;#x27;re anonymous.</text></comment>
<story><title>The impossible task of creating a “best VPNs” list</title><url>http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/06/aiming-for-anonymity-ars-assesses-the-state-of-vpns-in-2016/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bitL</author><text>So what&amp;#x27;s the best way to browse anonymously these days? Is it running a hypervised OS (some hardened GNU Linux&amp;#x2F;BSD Unix variant?) with a randomly changed LAN MAC upon every boot, connected to a VPN operating outside US with OpenVPN &amp;amp; 4k PK (e.g. in Romania), browsing using TorBrowser with NoScript and WebGL turned off? Or even two VPNs at the same time, one in the base OS, the other in the hypervised one?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sigjuice</author><text>What would be the benefit of changing your MAC address?</text></comment>