A little background first, I live in a rural area (not WAY 0UT, but very private, I do wanna be left alone by most of these hicks 'round here). I used dial-up for years because that was all that was available out here, no cable, no DSL, and I don't want satellite because it's not only expensive but cumulus clouds can block the signal, and I get a lot of those here, so broadband was out. I really used to love hearing AT&T's excuses that their lines weren't meant to carry computer data. I would think, "Yeah and? Get with that reality program or get the fuck off the pot, jerks" So finally I went wifi when that became available here so I could get broadband, but that meant using a mobile wifi device, or hotspot. From what I've read those things are insecure and you really need to button down your connection as best you can. So I learned how to not broadcast my SSDI, and connect only my computers to the router using MAC addresses, and password protect everything, and whatever else I could think of.
MY latest adventure has me using a free VPN. It is also called "tunneling". From what I gather, your browsing requests are all filtered through one server. They advertize that not even your ISP can see where you have surfed. I'm impressed. It might be a tad slower but not much. My IP address is hidden. I'm sure a hacker could get it but it wouldn't be easy. I'm using one of the most popular ones right now (15 mil.users) and the free version is ad supported by a bar at the top of your screen but you can shut that bar off if you're reading, for example, and it bothers you. I recommend anyone concerned about privacy at all should do this.
So, I just set this up yesterday so I'm new to this. So far I'm impressed. Any suggestions on anything about VPN?
MY latest adventure has me using a free VPN. It is also called "tunneling". From what I gather, your browsing requests are all filtered through one server. They advertize that not even your ISP can see where you have surfed. I'm impressed. It might be a tad slower but not much. My IP address is hidden. I'm sure a hacker could get it but it wouldn't be easy. I'm using one of the most popular ones right now (15 mil.users) and the free version is ad supported by a bar at the top of your screen but you can shut that bar off if you're reading, for example, and it bothers you. I recommend anyone concerned about privacy at all should do this.
So, I just set this up yesterday so I'm new to this. So far I'm impressed. Any suggestions on anything about VPN?