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Show HN: Fortressa – Create Your Own Private VPN in Minutes

by justinmayer on 1/31/18, 6:29 PM with 10 comments

• by plg on 1/31/18, 10:35 PM

  Forgive me perhaps I read the landing page too quickly but it looks like any other VPN service... I pay a stranger money and my traffic goes through that stranger’s servers?

  No offense but why would I trust that stranger?

  Isn’t the best choice for the privacy conscious to set up a VPN on a machine they themselves have physical control over?

• by justinmayer on 1/31/18, 6:30 PM

  Hi folks. Fortressa creator here. Friends and family kept asking me about VPNs, and I didn’t have any good suggestions to offer, so I built a solution I felt comfortable recommending. You can learn more about my motivation in my announcement post:

  https://justinmayer.com/posts/introducing-fortressa/

  I wanted to share this with the community in hopes of getting constructive feedback. Many thanks in advance, and please be kind! (^_^)

• by joshstrange on 1/31/18, 11:57 PM

  What does this give me over PIA? Other than over double the price? I can't seem to see any features this offers me over any of the other VPN's.

  It says it works on "Ready to protect your Mac computers, iPhones, and iPads?" how does even work? It would be one thing if they provided apps but I can't seem find links to their apps so why would this be limited to Mac/iOS?