Whether you live in a country where access to anti-government sites is restricted or you are simply concerned about your online visits being tracked, you will need to resort to a solution that protects your privacy and guarantees access to censored websites. This tool is the well-known VPN, which is essentially a virtual private network. Today, VPNs have become more intuitive and easy to use and configure, hence their popularity has transcended from desktop to mobile devices. Regarding their availability, they are offered under two modalities: free and paid. The free ones generally have many speed limitations while the paid ones have no limitations. How a VPN works A virtual private network has a characteristic that makes it special and unique, it is its encrypted data tunnels. When a user activates a VPN and visits a web page, their requests do not go through the telephony provider, but instead travel directly through the VPN tunnel and establish a secure connection with one of the remote VPN servers, accessing without problems. to the requested site. By using this tunnel and later establishing a secure connection with a remote server, we do not navigate using the IP assigned by the telephony provider. Instead we use the IP of the server provided by our VPN so our internet connection is theoretically hidden. It is important to note that these requests or data packets are fully encapsulated and encrypted for the duration of the transfer process from our browser to the remote server and vice versa. Obviously when we talk about the transfer process we are referring to when this data travels through the encrypted tunnel that the VPN virtually creates. When to use a VPN? Currently the use of a VPN is recommended regardless of whether we connect from our homes or offices. However, its use is necessary if: We connect to a public Wi-Fi In general, public access points are favorite targets of cybercriminals who, through eavesdropping software (sniffers), are hunting users who use this type of networks to carry out, above all, online purchases or banking transactions. If for “things in life” we have to connect to one of these networks, it is best to use a VPN to shield our data. If we live in countries under authoritarian regimes The use of a VPN is essential if you live in a country with an authoritarian regime because it will not only allow us to access blocked portals, but it will also hide our IP address, thus providing us with extra security. Thus, we will be able to use social networks and disseminate messages and information without the risk of being identified by the government and later being persecuted. If we do not want them to track our consumption habits on the Internet If we are concerned about the use that our data (navigation footprints) would give to telephone companies, government and social networks, then we will need the use of a VPN. With a virtual private network we will prevent the aforementioned organizations from obtaining all our browsing history and selling it “to the highest bidder”. The post The importance of having a VPN first appeared on Atomix.
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