Securing your iPhone web traffic with Hotspot Shield

I agree. It would be great if Apple supported OpenVPN on the iPhone. I suspect that the only way to get OpenVPN on your iPhone is through Jail Breaking your iPhone.

For those who want to connect their Mac to an OpenVPN server, tunnelblick freeware is a great OpenVPN client for the Mac. see http://code.google.com/p/tunnelblick/

You can use tunnelblick to connect your MAC to any OpenVPN server (like one you may have set up at home or a commercial adware OpenVPN server like AlwaysVPN).

I am not a big fan of ad-ware. So I encourage those Mac users to set up their own OpenVPN server at home.

@RobK
Well, I have a jailbroken iPhone and it definitely does not have OpenVPN support as yet. But I hope to see a patch in Cydia soon...
And as of AlwaysVPN, its not like OpenVPN but is a free VPN service that uses OpenVPN. Its same as using your own VPN Server, but it has ads.

Thanks. But the Terms of Service on http://www.anchorfree.com/ is different than the Terms Of Service posted on http://www.hotspotshield.com . Which applies when I use its service?

If I believe the terms of service posted at http://www.hotspotshield.com , then where is the Privacy Statement? CONTRARY to this terms of service posted here, Anchorfree has NOT posted a link to their Privacy Statement on its web page.

I just looked at its Privacy Statement hotspotshield.com and like many other ad-ware companies it is pretty awful IMHO. It automatically collects a lot of info including your IP address, "searches you perform, geographic location data, and all web sites that you visit and pages you view on such sites". "Additionally, AnchorFree may store some combination of this data locally on your computer to aid its advertising targeting capabilities"

If you don't mind doing that then Hotspot Shield may be for you. But I am saying "no thanks". I would rather use my Mac (or even my Windows computer) has a VPN server. Both Mac and Windows have this capability build it. Or if you don't want your computer running al; the time, then buy a router with VPN built in (eg Linksys BEFSX41 and IPSecuritas software). (Or Linksys WRT-54GL and DD-WRT firmware with OpenVPN). There are lots of great FREE VPN options out there where you don't have to give up your Privacy.

Or if you are just checking your EMAIL at a public hotspot, you often do not even need a VPN. Many webmail services offer free SSL encryption such as GMAIL.

But with GMAIL, you must FIRST surf to its web site using https (note the s on the end of http) BEFORE you log in. E.g Surf to mail.google.com. Then sign in. All communications will now be encrypted.

We have quite a few folks running iVPN on their mac minis we colocate for them. The app works great, though don't use it on Leopard Server.

Thanks Dylan, we're deleting him & banning him.