FYI, OneVPN Lifetime subscription, 75% off from Android Authority Deals https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#inbox/15794f95e182514c Enjoy! Mark On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 9:57 PM, Michael Butash wrote: > On 10/04/2016 08:20 PM, Eric Oyen wrote: > >> actually, >> there are other reasons for using an encrypted tunnel besides bit >> torrent. How about secure banking? or perhaps secure purchasing? mayhap >> even more secure email access. >> > Yes, SSL was born as a tunnel between your client and a service provider > server for that reason, far different from vpn though. Problem is it's > becoming increasingly easy to trick and/or program clients to overlook the > fact that there is a man in the middle attack in progress on that session. > Sometimes nefariously, sometimes legitimately as part of the service > delivery path of said service or given employer. No one really does > certificate validation and authentication on public-ish services, and most > times even private *secure* ones, so the value of ssl without validation > atop it is pretty useless. Better than nothing and secure in theory. > > A vpn though, something like ipsec or openvpn would only be used in such > cases if you were going to join your work or hosted services network, not > so much to google for gmail security or buying on ebay with paypal. A vpn > to egress another country does nothing but play hide and seek for > anonymity, .govs (now multiple) will just mitm the session anyways, or save > it later when they can decrypt it. > >> And yes, if there is a torrent I want to get (and it is perfectly legal >> too), I don't want my ISP pulling bandwidth throttling or bitching at me >> for supposedly downloading copyrighted materials when they aren't (yes, I >> have had this actually happen). >> > This is why I've considered routing all my traffic out over vpn, but real > usage is pretty miserable doing that even for just http traffic usage let > alone more real-time protocols. I can use torbrowser with the vpn proxy > for anything I want to keep more anonymized. > >> >> -eric >> > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >