[AccessD] Law of Unintended Consequences

[Paul Wolstenholme]

VPN used to just be a protocol to give remote workers access to a
corporate LAN (I.E. a Virtual Private Network).  That was useful but the
need for more security seems to have put it increasingly out of favour.
In the meantime products named after the VPN protocol are being pushed for
other reasons, perhaps just to legitimise its use to obfuscate the location
of the user.

If I wanted to download movies not yet released in my country or porn or
software restricted for export to my country or to communicate seditious
messages without the authorities finding me - then modern VPN tools would
be useful to me.

Hiding in order to break the rules isn't me.  I believe our world functions
better when we respect each other's rules.

Paul Wolstenholme


On Thu, 25 Jan 2024 at 14:40, John Colby <jwcolby at gmail.com> wrote:

> Likewise.  I am never blocked of course but I just don't see the point.  I
> have tunnel bear installed and have played with it but why?  It is a
> solution to a problem I don't feel.
>
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 8:33 PM Stuart McLachlan <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg>
> wrote:
>
> > FWIW, I very rarelu use one.
> > The only time is when a website geoblocks PNG IP addresses
> > (not common but it happens at times)
> >
> > On 24 Jan 2024 at 16:42, Rocky Smolin wrote:
> >
> > > So I fired up this VPN to satisfy my curiosity about them. But I don't
> > > know that I have a problem that the VPN is solving. Unless someone has
> > > a real compelling reason to use it, I'll probably turn it off.
> > >
> > > r
> > >
> >
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