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Posted: 16:50 - 25 Jun 2020 Post subject: VPN |
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Can someone explain to a computer imbecile how a VPN works and if there is any reason for a user that isn't a terrorist, hacker or pirate downloader to have one?
Surely governments and big companies like Google have the ability and knowhow to find out who is using one and where are they from or is it too much effort to check unless they think you are going to blowup the Eiffel Tower or call a Pikey a Pikey cunt on Facebook.
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Im-a-Ridah World Chat Champion
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Polarbear wrote: | Can someone explain to a computer imbecile how a VPN works and if there is any reason for a user that isn't a terrorist, hacker or pirate downloader to have one?
Surely governments and big companies like Google have the ability and knowhow to find out who is using one and where are they from or is it too much effort to check unless they think you are going to blowup the Eiffel Tower or call a Pikey a Pikey cunt on Facebook.
Cheers.
(A potential 18 YO girl on XXX Chatters) |
There are 2 types of VPN in layman, corporate and personal (not technical terms).
1. A VPN to tunnel into a local network from home or on the move.
2. A VPN to hide internet traffic
Most people are commenting about type 1, but you mean type 2 (e.g express vpn, tunnelbear, pia etc). The idea of them is:
1. To hide the contents of the traffic as it passes between you and your desination address except for the final hop between the exit server and you. This is useful if the traffic is otherwise not encryted. Also useful if using free wifi hotspots.
2. Hide your IP address from the destination website as your IP will appear to be that of the VPN provider
I would strongly suggest you use one given that you like to have your own opinions and not follow the establishment line. What websites you visit are logged by your ISP, its held for 6 months and can be searched by all manner of jobsworth agencies. There will probably be a scandal in the future involving leftist activists getting this data hoovered up on their opponents and passed to them.
ISPs can detect a VPN but it proves nothing and suggests nothing because they are so common. The civil liberties idea of a VPN is to protect your data from blanket surveillence but if you are being targeted by GCHQ personally then you will need to put a lot more effort in e.g TOR, Tails. |
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Ste Not Work Safe
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If you're using https then you're not as vulnerable to a rogue node as those who're just using http are.
Your ISP and or the government / police have no interest in what you're downloading or what porn you're watching unless you're into some pretty fucked up things!
The most successful way to prevent Google knowing things about you that you don't want them to know is to not use Google for things that you don't want Google to know about you.
Whether or not the country the ISP is based in is a country that cooperates with western law enforcement could be something to consider. |
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