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<blockquote data-quote="Victor M" data-source="post: 1083869" data-attributes="member: 96560"><p>Depends on how secure you want to be, it is entirely subjective. Some security professionals who knows what good security is and can offer also wants something scaled down but equivalent for their home setting. Some gamers who connects to public game servers and downloads untested insecure mods for their games may balk at too much security restrictions, 'ruining' their experience.</p><p></p><p>A VPN service like NordVPN or ProtonVPN gives you a secure tunnel thru the internet to their servers, and then the traffic leaves their servers towards the intended web destination. It offers some anonymity; because the web sites sees the traffic as originating from those servers and not directly from you. It offers some security in the confidentiality angle, by shielding you from prying eyes, because anyone watching your internet traffic at your local segment won't get to see the contents and where you are going. And it offers some security from the protection angle because unskilled attackers will have difficulty breaking into that tunnel of yours.</p><p></p><p>Aside from security, it offers you the ability to bypass region restrictions setup by some services, when you connect to a server in that country, thus falling within their allowed zone. But at the same time, some government services will drop your traffic because your traffic originates from somewhere outside your country because their services are only intended for local citizens.</p><p></p><p>A standard security approach is to start asking questions about what risks you cannot accept, and determine what security counter measures you thus need. That prioritised list determines how much you should budget for in addressing the concerns.</p><p></p><p>A small tip, ProtonVPN is a Swiss organisation which aims to provide security for all. They have a free plan which only offers servers in US, Netherlands and Japan (server concentrations per continental region) . So if you are in S. America, you can connect to the US servers, if you are in western Europe, you can connect to the Netherlands servers. The connections are fast and ad free. You can support their mission by enrolling in paid plans, which offers more servers in different countries, thus you avoid that problem stated above with local government services. They have operated their secure email service, ProtonMail, for a long time. If your router supports the Openvpn protocol, it should offer simple configuration: you just import a configuration file.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Victor M, post: 1083869, member: 96560"] Depends on how secure you want to be, it is entirely subjective. Some security professionals who knows what good security is and can offer also wants something scaled down but equivalent for their home setting. Some gamers who connects to public game servers and downloads untested insecure mods for their games may balk at too much security restrictions, 'ruining' their experience. A VPN service like NordVPN or ProtonVPN gives you a secure tunnel thru the internet to their servers, and then the traffic leaves their servers towards the intended web destination. It offers some anonymity; because the web sites sees the traffic as originating from those servers and not directly from you. It offers some security in the confidentiality angle, by shielding you from prying eyes, because anyone watching your internet traffic at your local segment won't get to see the contents and where you are going. And it offers some security from the protection angle because unskilled attackers will have difficulty breaking into that tunnel of yours. Aside from security, it offers you the ability to bypass region restrictions setup by some services, when you connect to a server in that country, thus falling within their allowed zone. But at the same time, some government services will drop your traffic because your traffic originates from somewhere outside your country because their services are only intended for local citizens. A standard security approach is to start asking questions about what risks you cannot accept, and determine what security counter measures you thus need. That prioritised list determines how much you should budget for in addressing the concerns. A small tip, ProtonVPN is a Swiss organisation which aims to provide security for all. They have a free plan which only offers servers in US, Netherlands and Japan (server concentrations per continental region) . So if you are in S. America, you can connect to the US servers, if you are in western Europe, you can connect to the Netherlands servers. The connections are fast and ad free. You can support their mission by enrolling in paid plans, which offers more servers in different countries, thus you avoid that problem stated above with local government services. They have operated their secure email service, ProtonMail, for a long time. If your router supports the Openvpn protocol, it should offer simple configuration: you just import a configuration file. [/QUOTE]
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