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Michael wrote: |
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> On Thursday, 4 August 2022 23:32:03 BST Dale wrote: |
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>> I also ordered a router that has openvpn installed on it. I watched |
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>> some videos and think I can set it up to keep my traffic out of public |
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>> view. After I learned more about it, there's no reason to not use the |
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>> VPN for all traffic really. That way I'm protected a little bit even if |
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>> a website is not secure. |
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> If by "not secure website" you mean an unencrypted connection to a web server, |
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> then such an insecure website remains insecure and so does your connection to |
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> it, whether the leg from your router to the VPN concentrator is encrypted or |
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> not. |
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> What kind of protection are you seeking - what is your threat model? |
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I'm mostly wanting it so people can't just look and see what I'm doing |
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or where I am, mostly my ISP. I do a little torrenting and such too. |
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;-) That said, even if I go to my bank's website which is https, it |
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will also go through a VPN which also encrypts the traffic. My bank is |
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secure as far as I know but having more protection added can't be a bad |
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thing. |
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I'm torn between torguard and surfshark. I'm not sure where torguard is |
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located but surfshark is in the Netherlands I think. Outside US |
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jurisdiction and from what I've read, they never give info to anyone |
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about their customers traffic. I'm still researching torguard. Maybe |
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someone here knows where they are located??? |
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I have a add-on for one of my Firefox profiles that adds a free VPN but |
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it is slow since it is free. I've been using it for a while for some |
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stuff. So far, I haven't visited my bank or anything with it tho. It |
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remembers my location and if it says I've moved to some other place, it |
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might freak out a bit. I still have a bit to learn about VPN but some |
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things I'm not going into in public. |
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The biggest thing, the speed of my new internet is just awesome. |
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Downloading that Knoppix ISO that would normally take almost half a day |
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but on fiber took minutes, very few of those even, was just plain |
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awesome. Used to, I waited on the internet, now it waits on me. If I |
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were to upgrade to the really fast one, I'd likely fall out of my |
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chair. :/ |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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