When you’re surfing the Internet at home or in the office, your ISP or your office IT department will have the full trace of what websites that you’ve been surfing. As every single PC is associated with an IP address that is the identity of your PC, so you can’t run away from being fully logged by the local ISP or your office IT department for the websites that you’ve accessed. If you want a little privacy without getting traced by your local ISP or your office IT department, Goldens.com has a solution that may help, but it costs a little every month.
What Goldens.com does for you is after you’ve signed up and downloaded and installed its OpenVPN client, your PC’s outgoing and incoming data will then be encrypted by Goldens’s VPN channel. Meaning that when you’re surfing the Internet, the data or information being sent to and from your PC to the Internet will be sent through a secure channel established between your PC and Goldens.com’s server in Amsterdam. Doing so will deceive the whole world that you’re surfing from a computer seated in Amsterdam. So, your local ISP will NOT have any trace that you’re surfing porns or chatting on your PC at home. Goldens claims that the encryption technology used in their VPN channel is the “strong” 2048 public key cryptographic algorithms based on Open source software, which should be strong enough not letting you be caught of any nasty tasks over the Internet. But, I wonder if Goldens will get the big shit if some hackers make use of this VPN channel to bombard other websites or servers. I bet Goldens would have some restrictions for some outgoing services such as blocking some DDOS attacks?
This extra service from Goldens protects your Internet roaming privacy, costs you $11 per month or $99 if you pay yearly. It all depends how much you value your privacy and the choice is yours whether to sign up for it or not!
Website: Goldens.com
February 9th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
The owner Fausty aka Douglas Spink, also has the website torrentfreedom.com and a questionable past, but don’t we all?
February 24th, 2008 at 12:29 am
Does not sound such a impressive in my hear. I would rather chose for free TOR which i trust more than anything else or if i need free proxies for surfing grab it from proxyblind.org
I do not know anything about questionable past from owner but it is interesting that both site torrentfreedom and goldens point to same ip address.
June 9th, 2008 at 3:11 am
It doesn’t ‘protect your privacy’ as much as it protects you from getting caught surfing porn you probably shouldn’t. Firstly, I’m more than happy to let my work IT Department know where I surf on THEIR computers and THEIR network – as the network belongs to them, and they have the right to decide where I should browse. As far as a home pc is concerned, most ISP’s are going to overlook where you surf until you surf somewhere illegal. Basically, I question the integrity and true motive behind a service such as the one you’ve described.
July 6th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
Of course this is a sort of protection from people who can track you if you’re viewing pornographic sites right? For instance, I am working in a call center or in an outsourcing firm where computers have logs. If I purchase your service will you protect me from security measures in the office I mentioned?
November 6th, 2008 at 2:43 am
1. Once payment is done, when will I get access to the service? And how will I know that I’m already protected?
2. What will happen to the encrypted information? Will they just die out or can they be retrieved?
3. How secure is this service?
4. Any money-back guarantee?
November 6th, 2008 at 8:02 am
Hi oil paintings, the encrypted information means the data is securely wrapped with an additional layer when it’s being transmitted, so no one will be able to trace what is being transmitted. It means that no ISP will get to know where you’re serving from. Since you’re connected to Goldens, it presents to the ISP as if you’re surfing on a Goldens’ computer. Hope this sounds less technical and more understandable to you.
Btw, TechChee doesn’t represent Goldens, you can check or post a question on Goldens.com about the money back guarantee.
July 1st, 2009 at 2:23 am
Is there a way to control, that this service is secure? How will I know that?
September 24th, 2009 at 11:26 am
Thank God we still live in a world where you can get internet privacy, even if it comes at a price. Since we the people have been deemed unworthy to maintain our own internet privacy, what has the world come to?