The Rigged-Up Net

Ok, whats interesting was that I had this on my todo… basically, set up a random VPN server so I could securely connect to it while I’m roaming on some random public wifi network. Google beat me to it – oh well. 🙂

Anyhow, its a basic MS-type 128-bit PPTP service and the userid/password are dynamically generated on the fly. Although there’s only a Win32 client right now, making this work in MacOSX and Linux is fairly trivial. So here are the instructions to get it working on MacOSX and using it as a template for Linux should be easy.

Here’s the Google Wifi page: Google Secure Access