The Cyber Solicitor

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Privacy Engineering

What a VPN does and does not do

A quick guide to virtual private networks

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Mahdi Assan
May 24, 2024
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Virtual private networks (VPN) are applications that protect the internet connections made from your device. It does so in the following two ways:

  1. Encrypting your internet connections

  2. Hiding your IP address

To use a VPN, you can install software (i.e., a VPN client) from a VPN service provider. The client connects to the VPN server of the provider, and bot…

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