Topic: VPNs - do you use it - page 3. (Read 3831 times)

Usually I don't care of connecting through VPN, unless I'm doing something what really needs anonymity.

I use nVPN , fast servers, reliable, and you can also make payments in bitcoin.

Bypasses any restrictions and closed ports from ISP.

You should all use some kind of VPN, weather you are trying to make anonnymous transactions,  download copyrighted material etc..

Even if you have nothing to hide, if you were to even access a site with an owner with malicious intent that is related to bitcoin then the site owner would know that you likely own some amount of bitcoin and now has your IP address (a way to connect to your computer).

Also if you are ever using a public network (school, library, public wifi, hotel internet) then it would be easy for someone to "listen" to your internet traffic and get credentials to any site that you login to or potentially steal cookies that are sent to you, allowing them to stay logged in to your accounts.

I use VPN`s since I dont want any person want to know my location.

No for me. But I do use Tor to assess some sites, which have blocked access from my country.

If you look at the footer of the forums here, you'll see:


That one seems to redirect to the German login page for Facebook.

I do use it to access certain sites that my ISP block.

I have nothing to hide! So that's why I don't use VPN or TOR ... but when I want to do something I know how hide myself!

I have a perfect combination between VPN/Proxy/TOR that works perfectly!

vpn still can track by hacked not stupid they have more tools to break you security . thats why need more security when online its important and visit unfamilliar website its really dangerous if you have many money in your investment or important data else.

I do, but only for security when working from home or on the road.

I find them very useful specially to access sites with country restricition

I only use VPN to improve security when using hotel internet or free wifi networks, not to hide my identity or anything.

Well VPNs make especially much sense when you're connected to an unprotected wireless network. Becuase VPNs effectively encrypt your complete traffic to the VPN-server, therefore the wireless connection (which is the weak spot, potentially also the router/local network) is encrypted.

im on a dorm at university with a lot of other bitcoiners, they do not allow VPN 

No,i don't use VPNs.Why? Because i use TOR. 

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Hi,

I only use a VPN to get around censorship etc and also for security. When you are on public Wifi networks all the unsecured data (HTTP) is visible to everyone on the network.

Torrent bundle, what is that? Don't you mean Tor Browser Bundle?(TBB)

Tor is only 'better' in the sense that it has a huge .exit node network while i2p focuses mostly on the darknet(.exit nodes in i2p are called outproxies). One use I find in i2p is the internal torrent network which is not too small these days I can recommend the TPB AFK movie legal to download , though I use Tor when I want to get out to regular websites on the internet that are not themselves part of an onion network.

Greetings to you,

The low level of understanding how the "internets" work among BTC "afficionados" is incredible, don't you think?

Anyway, I use OpenVPN at home (without static IP, oh me, I'm a magician!) with DynDNS and everything works like a charm. I have an embedded low consumption fan-less server which runs FreeBSD.

As for the anonymity I use TOR bundle these days. I used to run a TOR node and connect through VPN -> FreeBSD/TOR node (10.8.0.1:9051) but I had really low bandwidth so it turned out that using latest torrent bundle is way safer and faster.

That said, paid VPN's are a fine thing in some ways but mostly protects from some sort of DNS-hijacking that could occur in private WiFi networks easily (metasploit has some fine examples, like redirect from facebook.com to login.facebook.at) where the page asks for confirmation etc. Most avg users will give you the user/pass for fb, twitter and so on. Another way that doesn't work these days is sniffing non-https connections, but almost every website have an https.

Again: VPN protects you from third parties (if you route all your connections from the VPN). Especially in countries like UAE, Iran, Iraq, etc. It's a *must have*. Even if you travel there, but for *real anonymity* you're between i2p and (way better imho) TOR.

Regards bro :-)

Finally a reasonable answer containing some usefull information. Thank you!