this post was submitted on 01 Jan 2024
-65 points (21.7% liked)

Technology

59589 readers
2891 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
L3s@fry.gs
L4s@fry.gs
L4s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
-65
You probably don't need a VPN (www.spacebar.news)
submitted 10 months ago by corbin@infosec.pub to c/technology@lemmy.world
26 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] jet@hackertalks.com 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/basics/vpn-overview/

If you want to real, reasoned, nuanced discussion of the benefits and costs of using a VPN. I cannot recommend privacy guides highly enough

Tldr: VPNs are great, at obscuring your local traffic from your ISP, but then the VPN can see your traffic. You have to think about the trade-offs in your scenario