Technology vpn

[yak pac fatal]

can someone school me on this or guide me to an informative video?

 

[Rukas]

NordVPN. Got a sale was like 60 bucks for three years or something. Just turn it on and away you go.

 

[masta247]

^Or Windscribe if you just wanna try the best one with a free plan. It might as well be good enough if you're not downloading large things through it, since it's their full VPN access (and their VPN is very good), except with a monthly data cap and with a couple of servers disabled preventing you from being able to watch Netflix as a different country (Since Netflix bans the servers one by one and they have to change their configs regularly to deliver that as a premium feature).

For basics on what is VPN, this is as high-level and short as it gets:

And for an even shorter analogy, basically.. if you ever watched the old cop TV series, if you're using VPN and someone tried to pinpoint your location based on your online activity they would say something along the lines of "we've tried to track him down but we lost his trace in Puerto Rico".

Basically, you're not connecting "directly" as yourself to wherever you're requesting any data from, which is normally the case without a VPN. With VPN another entity on the way (your company for business VPNs or a server in a different country for personal VPNs) is doing that on your behalf, encrypts the data, then delivers you the data you requested. Sometimes there are several entities on the way too, passing your data between themselves until they reach you, to make tracking you down even more difficult. That's pretty much all there is. VPNs increase your privacy by passing your data around and delivering it to you through an encrypted connection.

That said, it's not a 100% security guarantee. You're putting your whole trust in the hands of your VPN provider, since they can see all your data, and they technically can be tampered with. Plus, if someone really up to no good, law enforcement, a foreign government or you name it is already after you, they will still be able to intercept your data by attacking your computer directly and getting unencrypted data from your computer as opposed to intercepting the internet traffic on the way. VPNs really just prevent people from being able to try their luck easily, as the easiest options of getting your data are out the window. If you break the law online, most VPN providers will still have to cooperate with law enforcement and will usually provide the information needed to track you down, even if they say they're not keeping any logs.

VPNs make you a more difficult target for the bad guys though and enable you to reach regionally restricted content without the target knowing who requested it (unless you use your login info or something on their website). As an added benefit, your internet service provider or anyone else on the way has no way of intercepting your data or knowing what data you're browsing/downloading - only the VPN provider does.

 

[yak pac fatal]

thanks guys

 

[dilla]

^Or Windscribe if you just wanna try the best one with a free plan. It might as well be good enough if you're not downloading large things through it, since it's their full VPN access (and their VPN is very good), except with a monthly data cap and with a couple of servers disabled preventing you from being able to watch Netflix as a different country (Since Netflix bans the servers one by one and they have to change their configs regularly to deliver that as a premium feature).

For basics on what is VPN, this is as high-level and short as it gets:

And for an even shorter analogy, basically.. if you ever watched the old cop TV series, if you're using VPN and someone tried to pinpoint your location based on your online activity they would say something along the lines of "we've tried to track him down but we lost his trace in Puerto Rico".

Basically, you're not connecting "directly" as yourself to wherever you're requesting any data from, which is normally the case without a VPN. With VPN another entity on the way (your company for business VPNs or a server in a different country for personal VPNs) is doing that on your behalf, encrypts the data, then delivers you the data you requested. Sometimes there are several entities on the way too, passing your data between themselves until they reach you, to make tracking you down even more difficult. That's pretty much all there is. VPNs increase your privacy by passing your data around and delivering it to you through an encrypted connection.

That said, it's not a 100% security guarantee. You're putting your whole trust in the hands of your VPN provider, since they can see all your data, and they technically can be tampered with. Plus, if someone really up to no good, law enforcement, a foreign government or you name it is already after you, they will still be able to intercept your data by attacking your computer directly and getting unencrypted data from your computer as opposed to intercepting the internet traffic on the way. VPNs really just prevent people from being able to try their luck easily, as the easiest options of getting your data are out the window. If you break the law online, most VPN providers will still have to cooperate with law enforcement and will usually provide the information needed to track you down, even if they say they're not keeping any logs.

VPNs make you a more difficult target for the bad guys though and enable you to reach regionally restricted content without the target knowing who requested it (unless you use your login info or something on their website). As an added benefit, your internet service provider or anyone else on the way has no way of intercepting your data or knowing what data you're browsing/downloading - only the VPN provider does.

+1 on Windscribe. I’ve had their free plan for two years now from a promo code. I get 60 GB a month and I use it to circumvent region restrictions for sporting events. Works well. They have an Android app as well.