Can anyone help me find safe VPN security options for my computer?
Can anyone help me find safe VPN security options for my computer?
There actually is security here, especially if you use an ISP that keeps all log files inside of its own pipes and deletes them right away. Basically, we know from the laws in most first-world countries that ISPs are required to record every single piece of data sent or received by your computer, so they must be able to give it to the government when asked. Today, selling that information is very big business, and many companies want money out of it. That is why Microsoft has added spyware to some versions of Windows recently, and same goes for your ISP: they are definitely watching what you do and sending that info to anyone who wants to pay them. A VPN works by taking the internet traffic from your ISP's server and sending it instead to a different server owned by the VPN provider. Your ISP only sees encrypted data going to the new place, while the real connection stays with the other side. If the VPN company keeps all logs and tries to steal data from you, then using one doesn't help much at all. But if they are truly "no log" providers, there is nothing for them to keep or sell. They will charge a little extra for this service, but I think it's worth trying if you care about privacy enough to set up the VPN anyway. Before someone asks why you do it, just make sure your connection logs go somewhere like /dev/null or into a temporary file that gets deleted every time you restart your computer. It uses memory without saving anything permanently after the power goes off.