Re: VPN ideas

From	Joe <joe@jretrading.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: VPN ideas
Date	2020-12-08 13:30 +0100
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On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 11:44:36 +0200
Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:

> 2. Access the internet from a different point in the world
> 
>    This done for some increase in privacy[1] and/or to pretend you
> are in a different location (country) and/or to hide your traffic
> from your ISP.
> 
>    Unless you have access to a system on the internet to set up your
> own VPN server you have to rely on (paid) VPN providers.
> 
>    Tor is also an option for this use case.
> 
> Which of the above would apply for you?
> 
> >  - and , is this a reasonable idea ?  
> 
> Depends on the use case (see above) and/or your country and/or your
> ISP, internet connection speed, VPN provider etc.
> 
> [1] a VPN will just hide your public IP address and the traffic
> between you and the exit point. It doesn't do anything about your
> browser user agent, cookies and many other methods you can still be
> identified and traced on the internet, if this is what you are
> worried about.
> 

This application is also useful with a home VPN server, if you're not
trying to hide anything, but just want to use the Net reasonably safely
from an unsafe location e.g. Internet cafe. You can tailor a set of
firewall rules to allow nothing in or out except DNS, DHCP and HTTP
(normally a local web login is required), not forgetting the tunnelling
protocol port out. A VPN client will normally have a switch to route
everything through the tunnel to achieve this.

-- 
Joe

Thread

VPN ideas ellanios82 <ellanios82@gmail.com> - 2020-12-07 22:30 +0100
  Re: VPN ideas Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2020-12-07 22:40 +0100
    Re: VPN ideas ellanios82 <ellanios82@gmail.com> - 2020-12-07 23:40 +0100
    Re: VPN ideas Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2020-12-08 00:50 +0100
  Re: VPN ideas Georgi Naplatanov <gosho@oles.biz> - 2020-12-07 22:50 +0100
  Re: VPN ideas Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2020-12-08 02:00 +0100
    Re: VPN ideas john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2020-12-08 08:20 +0100
      Re: VPN ideas <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-12-08 09:50 +0100
        Re: VPN ideas Alex Mestiashvili <amestia@rsh2.donotuse.de> - 2020-12-08 10:00 +0100
        Re: VPN ideas Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2020-12-08 14:00 +0100
  Re: VPN ideas Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-12-08 10:50 +0100
    Re: VPN ideas Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-12-08 11:20 +0100
    Re: VPN ideas Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2020-12-08 13:30 +0100
      Re: VPN ideas Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-12-09 11:00 +0100
        Re: VPN ideas Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2020-12-09 11:30 +0100
          Re: VPN ideas Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-12-09 12:00 +0100
            Re: VPN ideas Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2020-12-09 12:10 +0100
              Re: VPN ideas Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2020-12-09 15:30 +0100
              Re: VPN ideas Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-12-09 16:10 +0100
                Re: VPN ideas Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2020-12-09 18:10 +0100
              Re: VPN ideas Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com> - 2020-12-09 16:10 +0100
                Re: VPN ideas Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2020-12-09 20:10 +0100
                Re: VPN ideas Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-12-10 09:10 +0100
    Re: VPN ideas Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2020-12-08 20:50 +0100
      Re: VPN ideas Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2020-12-08 23:10 +0100
        Re: VPN ideas Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2020-12-08 23:40 +0100
          Re: VPN ideas Long Wind <longwind2@yahoo.com> - 2020-12-09 03:10 +0100
          Re: VPN ideas Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-12-09 11:10 +0100
            Re: VPN ideas Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2020-12-09 18:00 +0100
              Re: VPN ideas Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-12-10 09:50 +0100
                Re: VPN ideas Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2020-12-10 18:50 +0100
        Re: VPN ideas <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-12-09 09:50 +0100
          Re: VPN ideas Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com> - 2020-12-09 15:30 +0100
          Loadbearing services Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com> - 2020-12-09 16:00 +0100
            Re: Loadbearing services Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2020-12-09 16:40 +0100
              Re: Loadbearing services Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com> - 2020-12-09 17:40 +0100

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