On Jan 21, 2016, at 11:34 AM, Sandra Schreiber <[email protected]> asked:
> what is a VPN? Sandy Virtual Private Network It’s a way to keep people within the local network from eavesdropping on your traffic. The way it works is instead of connecting directly to outside sites, your machine sends and receives all its traffic through another machine, called a proxy server, that’s located elsewhere. The traffic between your machine and the proxy machine is encrypted so nobody on the local network can eavesdrop. The proxy machine could be anywhere in the world. The sites you connect to think you’re connecting from the proxy machine instead of from the local Starbuck’s. On Jan 21, 2016, at 11:37 AM, Bill Rising <[email protected]> asked: > Which VPN software do you use? For the last few years, I’ve been using one with the clever name Private Internet Access <https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/>. They’re now up to $40/yr for new customers, but I’m still grandfathered into their old rate of $25. They have proxy points all over the US and Europe. It works quite well — even with streaming video — on all my operating systems: OS x, iOS and Linux. My son sometimes uses it with Windows.
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