The odd-musings of Jared, the Director of Network Security for IAPS Security Services.

Folks, I’ve developed and tested a new set of protocols that will increase your network upload speed by 3 times the amount as set by your local internet service provider as long as you are connected to an IAPS Network VPN Service. I’ve done extensive testing all over Europe and in the United States and the results appear the same.

Lets say for example that your local upload speed set by your provider was 512 kb/s. When your connected to an IAPS Network Server we can create separate lines for your upload and download speeds instead of tunnelling then through one line as is the practice of local isp’s. Once we add a few protocols of ours into the mix and are connected to an IAPS Network, that 512 kb/s upload speed should average out to be around 1.5 MB/s.

None of you currently have these capabilities and an IAPS Support Technician will have to perform live support for you to apply the correct protocols and configuration. If you have an active account with the IAPS Security Store then all you need to do is follow the instructions for live support that are contained at the bottom of your account opening email and send that information over our Encrypted Contact Page and one of our technicians will get with you and show you how its done and what the end results are as well as what percentage of an advantage you have obtained.

Folks, the new U.S. based dynamic VPN service is almost complete. I’m in testing stages right now and hope to rap it up in the next 24 hours before I release it to the general public. So please bear with me for the time. I know there is a great demand for it and I’m working on it as fast as possible.

I’m also in the process of developing new VPN instructions to come into compliance with the needs of the Mac Snow Leopard operating system. I’ll have those new instructions completed as well in the next 24 hours. Thank you all for your continued support of the IAPS Security Store. We all appreciate it tremendously.

Hi Folks,

As part of a limited time offer, the IAPS Security Store is temporarily bringing back our trial program. This will include a full 24 hour trial of the network of your choice. Choices include the following:

United States
United Kingdom
Canada
Switzerland
Luxembourg
France
Spain
Belgium

Services include both Secure Shell & Virtual Private Networks. All trial account requests must be submitted through the appropriate contact page.

Hello Folks,

As part of the largest expansion the IAPS Security Store has ever released, we are proud to add the following countries to our list of service areas effective immediately:

Ireland
Belgium
France
Italy
Spain
Poland
Denmark

The addition of these new countries marks a new era for the IAPS Security Store as one of the largest privately owned and operated security providers on the internet today. With investments totaling over $150,000 U.S. dollars in machines, man hours, technical support personnel, and network availability, we have the capacity to serve a wider global clientele and can meet even the roughest demands.

Whether your into offshore gaming, online private trading, looking to watch streaming media from abroad, or are restricted by your isp, government, university, or employer for what and where you can go on the internet, the IAPS Security Store has a solution for you.

All new locations have been started out with a 25% off introductory rate. Once you’ve seen the power of these new networks, we hope to have you aboard for a long time to come.

For the many of you that have been asking me for ages to provide an Irish server, I have now answered this request and all the Irish streaming media awaits you to start viewing it.

I have looked into the French, Spain, and Belgium services offered by Zattoo. France and Spain do require paid subscriptions to view that media. This is not a fee imposed by IAPS, but rather directly by the creators of Zattoo themselves. Zattoo in Belgium is no longer offered at all. Zattoo’s free locations are still in the United Kingdom, Germany, and Switzerland as far as I am aware. I will check on the Denmark version and post an update on my blog whether its still free or not. Or you can simply reply to this email and ask what the results were.

If you want to know if a particular streaming media site works before you purchase it, please let me know so I can go test it. I know of a great many of them, but not all of them. So I’d be happy to accomodate checking into sites that you’d like to be able to view.

If you are in the middle east, such as Qatar, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, or United Arab Emirates etc., and cannot reach our site to place your order, (middle eastern governments are not IAPS friendly for some strange reason) please send a reply email directly to staff (at) intl-alliance.com and we will provide an alternative ordering solution for you.

For those of you not aware and use it, we do accept Liberty Reserve and Pecunix digital gold currency as a payment option. Money Bookers is also an option as well. We are considering several other payment options but are open to suggestions from the public as to payment providers who would be more convenient to you. If you have any questions, comments, or need to know if something works or not, please let us know accordingly. Thank you.

Hi Folks,

I just wanted to take a moment out of your busy lives to let you know that a few things have been updated. First and foremost, our Privacy Policy has been updated. Its still short, simple, and to the point. It just lets you know how we handle your information. Secondly, I wanted to let you all know about the need for increased security around the world. I understand that a majority of you know little about security and much less on how to implement it correctly. I’ve seen many of you have firewalls and anti-virus applications installed but not many of you understood how to correctly implement either one of those.

I have written many recent tutorials on the need for increased online security. These titles include:

Whole Disk Encryption & Why You Need It
Browser Security Enhancements For Fire Fox
Techniques To Increase VPN Tunnel Performance
The Need For Email Encryption – Revisited Again
DSL & Cable Broadband Speed Tweaks
Pidgin – The Encrypted Instant Messenger

These are just some of the more recent articles I’ve written. All of these articles are publicly posted in my continuously updated blog. You will also find service update information, notifications of new services, special deals, 48 hour sales, and security tutorials as well as step-by-step guides. I’ve mentioned and written numerous guides on free ways to implement high-tech security for your personal computer than I encourage you all to read.

I understand that many of you do not have a computer technical background and might encounter difficulty installing and properly implementing these security techniques but would like to take advantage of them for your own personal reasons. With this in mind, the professional security technicians at the IAPS Security Store are more than happy to assist in installation, implementation, and in training you to properly use these techniques and applications to your advantage and to give you back the lost privacy you once had. We charge a flat rate for this service: $50 USD an hour. In most cases, this work is completed in as little as 20-30 minutes. If you are interested in what we have to offer here, please feel free to respond back directly to this email.

As the Director of Network Security for IAPS, I feel its my responsibility to spread the word about increased security when and where ever I can so those that wish to benefit from it have that opportunity. Thank you for your time and have a wonderful day.

With Warmest Regards,

Jared T.
International Alliance Privacy Services
Director of IAPS Network Security

Folks, I’ll be upfront and honest with you. Per our last amended Terms & Conditions page my security department and myself, dated on August 30, 2008 stated that new security requirements were actively enforced to cut down on the fraud rate.

Not many of you read these terms and attempt to order through proxies, other vpn’s, and other privacy services. Folks, I can’t tell you how much of a no-no this is. Our security department actively blocks known vpn providers and other proxy services on a daily basis and this includes most of the known AOL ip address ranges. AOL was specifically blocked because of the immensely high amount of payment fraud coming from that network. A friendly chat with the network security chaps over at AOL didn’t produce tangible results on ways to effectively cut the fraud rate coming from their networks so we made the decision to start blocking those ranges from being able to access our site and services.

As per the Terms & Conditions written on August 30, 2008 any order that is placed under a proxy server is automatically blocked and refused. We will not fill orders placed under a proxy. I guarantee many more will try and many more will be blocked. Once a proxy is discovered, we not only ban that ip address, we ban the entire subnet belonging to that provider. If there is some absolute reason you must be under a proxy, then talk to us first and let us know why. We’re reasonable people here but take our networks seriously to prevent fraud, spam, and other malicious activity from originating by our networks. Its not fair to our legitimate clients to have fraudsters and scam artists running wild on our networks. So we protect our networks with every means available to us.

Additionally, due to the extremely high rates of fraud in Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, VietNam, Cote D’Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Liberia, Cameroon, Benin, Sierra Leone, & Sudan, these orders are automatically rejected under any condition.

It is the ultimate responsibility of the team that works at IAPS to protect both our clients and our networks by all means possible. We rise to that challenge on a daily basis and will continue to do so. If any of you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to get in contact with us. Thank you.

Folks, I’ve tested the new Windows 7 Beta (version 7100) and can confirm full compatibility with all IAPS Security Store services. This includes full compatibility with SSH & VPN services. There’s not much of a real difference between Vista and the new Windows 7 except for graphical design and the placement of certain files. If you are a seasoned veteran of Windows Vista, you’ll notice these changes almost immediately.

For those of you that have decided to stick with Windows XP, you can decide for yourself if upgrading is the right thing for you. I have personally seen a stable operating system with Windows 7 on the computers we have here in the control center.

We performed a direct upgrade from existing installations of Windows Vista Ultimate Edition and the only draw backs we’ve seen are that several existing programs that were loaded on the Windows Vista boxes needed to be reinstalled once the upgrade was complete. With the reinstallations of those certain programs full functionality did return. Overall, a nice operating system but it still needs those finishing touches to make it a gold standard product.

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International Alliance Privacy Services, through the IAPS Security Store believes in giving back to the community. Not just our local communities but on a world-wide scale. We know the valuable services that charitable & educational organizations provide to a community and we know most of them rely on community donations and work on a limited budget. With this in mind, International Alliance Privacy Services would like to share our network resources free of charge for these organizations.

We ask for nothing in return for these services. This is our way of giving back to these organization that strive for a better world and to promote peace, well being, educational services, and pride for their communities. We ask for a few simple verification procedures to be completed for any charity requesting these services:

1.) In the U.S. a 501c Tax Exempt Certificate & Business Incorporation License.
2.) The name, address, phone number, and contact name of the person in charge of the organization.
3.) All international organizations must provide the equivalency of the above.
4.) A Certified Educational Business License for any Educational Organization.
5.) Documentation must be faxed to: +1-518-320-8671 in the United States (scanned/emailed documents will not be accepted)
6.) Your organization must be a NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION.

The following services will be made available for all qualified charitable/educational institutions:

1.) Unlimited website hosting services (available jurisdictions for hosting: United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Switzerland, & Luxembourg.
2.) Unlimited access to Virtual Private Networks belonging to and operated by International Alliance Privacy Services.
3.) Unlimited access to Secure Shell (SSHv2) Networks belonging to and operated by International Alliance Privacy Services.
4.) Unlimited secure & encrypted data storage space.
5.) Unlimited access to high security and encrypted email services.

This notice is officially posted here.