User Guide

Your Freedom User Guide
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Index
1 Introduction.......................................................................................................... 5
1.1 What is Your Freedom? ............................................................................... 5
1.2 What is it not? .............................................................................................. 5
1.3 What can I use it for? ................................................................................... 5
1.4 How does it work?........................................................................................ 6
1.5 Is it secure? Is it anonymous? Does it compromise my security? Can I catch
a virus? ................................................................................................................... 7
1.6 What does it cost?........................................................................................ 8
1.7 Is Your Freedom “Spyware” or “AdWare”?................................................... 8
1.8 How many servers do you have? Are they all the same?............................. 8
2 First steps.......................................................................................................... 10
2.1 Registration process................................................................................... 10
2.2 Getting and installing the client software.................................................... 10
2.3 Connecting for the first time ....................................................................... 11
2.4 Configure applications................................................................................ 19
2.4.1 Automatically....................................................................................... 19
2.4.2 Manually.............................................................................................. 21
2.5 Sophisticated configurations ...................................................................... 26
2.5.1 The Your Freedom configuration dialog.............................................. 26
2.5.2 The Your Freedom client configuration file.......................................... 33
2.5.3 Configuration options .......................................................................... 33
2.6 Starting and stopping the connection ......................................................... 39
2.6.1 Each user may only log in once .......................................................... 39
2.7 Choosing the right server ........................................................................... 39
2.7.1 Server location .................................................................................... 39
2.7.2 Protocols ............................................................................................. 40
2.7.3 CGI relays ........................................................................................... 40
2.8 Using “socksifiers”...................................................................................... 43
2.8.1 Windows ............................................................................................. 44
2.8.2 Linux and other Unix derivates............................................................ 44
2.8.3 Mac OS X............................................................................................ 44
2.9 OpenVPN support ...................................................................................... 44
2.9.1 Introduction ......................................................................................... 44
2.9.2 Prerequisites ....................................................................................... 44
2.9.3 Configuration tasks ............................................................................. 45
2.9.4 Configure your applications................................................................. 47
2.9.5 Troubleshooting .................................................................................. 47