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What is Shadowsocks – An alternative to VPN?

Shadowsocks is basically an open-source for bypassing the censored content on internet. It was introduced in 2012 by a Chinese programmer with an anonymous name “CLOWWINDY”. It is used, widely, to access the restricted web sources in one’s country and to hide your identity in order to work anonymously. Shadowsocks came to the mainstream when great firewall in china occurred, that is the blocking of major VPN providers. It became popular as an alternative for VPN, but it is exactly not a VPN like service. After successful implementation of the protocols employed in the Shadowsocks, since then, several other applications have been developed using these protocols.

What Shadowsocks is for

It is mainly aimed at going past censorship with HTTPS and deceived traffic restrictions. Shadowsocks runs on the client side using a software application support, which, like SSH tunnel, runs socks5 proxy to divert internet traffic. But unlike SSH tunnel, UDP (User Datagram Protocol) traffic can also be diverted using Shadowsocks. What Shadowsocks does is that it creates a concealed connected between the proxy server running in your computer and the Shadowsocks client in user system with the help of SOCKS5, which is an open source internet protocol.

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VPN Indonesia: Surf the net secure and without restrictions

With fourth largest population in the world 41% people use VPN in Indonesia to access restricted information. Although Indonesian government holds a progressive approach towards use of internet in economic development it is very cautious over information filtering and blocking of offensive content. In this regard cyber laws are great savior.

Cyber laws help in preventing information leakage and providing safe transactions. It strictly blocks anti-Islamic and pornographic content. To achieve this objective, it has set up an extensive regulatory and legal framework and linked up with ISPs and cafes. VPN is a safeguard in this matter.

Why I need a VPN in Indonesia?

VPN is the software which will assign you a different virtual IP address which will protect your identity. It works by making a layer of protection by encrypting your data and assigning you an IP address of different geographical region.

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VPN Vietnam: Access the net secure and without restrictions

Whenever it comes to the internet security, the first thing comes in mind is cyber laws, the laws imposed and facilitated by the government of a particular nation, in this case Vietnam. This cyber laws plays an important role in preventing information leaks, security in information exchanging and providing safe transactions. As government plays an important role here so it also can surpass the some internet rights in the name of the cyber laws. Many of the social sites are blocked in Vietnam and also the government is keeping a trace over the emails. The government also put some bloggers behind the bars on expressing their views on political and religious agendas.

Also, according to a recent report of Kaspersky, a software firm, Vietnam is at high risk of cyber attacks

Now the question arises, what if you are in Vietnam and working on a very important and sensitive project, in which the accessibility of blocked site is essential and at the same time you have to deal with the security concerns?
Well the answers to all your concerns is VPN (Virtual Private Network)
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