The internet is open, unprotected and accessible by almost everyone. When you communicate over the internet, any information you send/recieve, from emails to login details, from bank account details to your address , can be seen by people who shouldn't be seeing them.
Illustrated below is a "man in the middle attack":
Basically, a VPN fortifies the data passage. Earlier all a hacker needed to do was sit in the middle and just listen!
Now he has to break through equivalent of the walls of Mordor to get to what's inside.
What's better, the data inside is encrypted. So any guy who somehow manages to get in finds himself in a sea of confusion.
So a VPN greatly reduces the risk of information theft.
How Does It Make You Anonymous?
Anonymity on the web is extremely important, even if you aren't hacking.
Identity theft, location pinpointing(almost right down to your actual address) and many other things that you basically don't want can happen if someone has your IP.
Any request while in a VPN will be re-routed through a server that the company owning the VPN product you use houses. Now any person attempting to trace your IP will be given that VPN server's IP. Your IP hides deep within the VPN server and won't ever be given away.
Use VPNs. They're crazily useful and yet no one knows about them.
Search online for VPNs and you'll get a million results in a millionth of a second.
They're a dime a dozen. Check out which suits your needs the best and buy it!
You will not want to use the internet without it.
This video from proXPN.com explains exactly how important a VPN can be..
Its free , try it!
One little thing, VPNs connect you to remote computers and help you access the internet through them. It will slow down your connection quite a lot.
Illustrated below is a "man in the middle attack":
This attack is possible because the guy can see everything freely in an un-encrypted form because the data being passed is open!
Now lets say the same data transfer was done through a fortified tunnel,i.e.,The VPN
Now he has to break through equivalent of the walls of Mordor to get to what's inside.
What's better, the data inside is encrypted. So any guy who somehow manages to get in finds himself in a sea of confusion.
So a VPN greatly reduces the risk of information theft.
How Does It Make You Anonymous?
Anonymity on the web is extremely important, even if you aren't hacking.
Identity theft, location pinpointing(almost right down to your actual address) and many other things that you basically don't want can happen if someone has your IP.
Any request while in a VPN will be re-routed through a server that the company owning the VPN product you use houses. Now any person attempting to trace your IP will be given that VPN server's IP. Your IP hides deep within the VPN server and won't ever be given away.
Use VPNs. They're crazily useful and yet no one knows about them.
Search online for VPNs and you'll get a million results in a millionth of a second.
They're a dime a dozen. Check out which suits your needs the best and buy it!
You will not want to use the internet without it.
This video from proXPN.com explains exactly how important a VPN can be..
Its free , try it!
One little thing, VPNs connect you to remote computers and help you access the internet through them. It will slow down your connection quite a lot.
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