• undefined@links.hackliberty.org
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    3 months ago

    As a result, anyone wanting to access blocked sites from Russia is forced to use a VPN, a protective tunnel that encrypts internet traffic and changes a user’s IP address.

    I hate how media describes VPN. It doesn’t “change your IP address” but rather makes your traffic appear to come from a remote endpoint when configured to do so.

    I use VPNs all the time that don’t “change my IP address” at all.

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      3 months ago

      Are you talking about split tunneling?

      Because last I heard it was considered bad as it was haibg a hard time deciding what traffic to tunnel and what traffic to not