Subj : Re: Which VPN?
To   : HusTler
From : Phigan
Date : Wed Jul 05 2023 01:46 pm

  Re: Re: Which VPN?
  By: HusTler to Phigan on Tue Jul 04 2023 04:43 am

 >  Ph> - Using geo-locked services, meaning sites or services that check what
 >  Ph> country you're in.
 >
 >   Thanks for the explanation. I thought a VPN would hide my IP by changing
 > it and would also encrypt my connection  therefore prying eyes could not

Exactly what I'm talking about above. Geo-locked services check your originating IP, and if it isn't on a network in a certain country, that service doesn't allow you access. When you use a VPN, the destination host (the service), thinks your originating IP is the VPN's endpoint. So, yes, that means the service you're connecting to doesn't see what your real IP is, but that doesn't mean nobody else does. The VPN service certainly knows your real originating IP, at the very least. Say you were _actually_ worried about keeping some government agency from knowing where you were connecting to.. if the agency knows every endpoint of a VPN service (which they do), they can monitor them at the router level and even without packet inspection make very well educated guesses as to which outbound connection matches which inbound connection.

As for encrypting your connection, like DM said, your traffic to most websites is already encrypted. If you are, say, on McDonald's (public) wifi, and you wanted to connect to a telnet BBS from there, a VPN might keep others on the McDonald's network from seeing your BBS password, but it wouldn't keep others on the VPN's network from seeing it. In cases like that, I just SSH to my home network and tunnel through there, making my house the VPN.

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