Re: OT: *FREE* VPN! Why?

2015-08-06 Thread Jape Person
On 08/06/2015 11:22 AM, Bob Bernstein wrote: On Thu, 6 Aug 2015, Jape Person wrote: I could jump through all the hoops I wanted to, but using my ISP-provided e-mail account (even with encrypted contents and directed through a VPN) for communications with people at risk would be laughable.

Re: OT: *FREE* VPN! Why?

2015-08-06 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Thu, 6 Aug 2015, Mike Castle wrote: One handed Dvorak keyboard mappings. Thank you for handling that query Mike. Didn't wanna go near it meeself. -- Bob Bernstein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: OT: *FREE* VPN! Why?

2015-08-06 Thread John Hasler
Cindy-Sue Causey writes: I may have misunderstood wherever I read it, but another thing I'm grasping vpn's about is for people to access the FREE SPEECH web from within countries that do things like jail and shoot their journalists for writing the TRUTH about Life. That's limited,

Re: OT: *FREE* VPN! Why?

2015-08-06 Thread Mike Castle
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 9:36 AM, Jape Person jap...@comcast.net wrote: Brings up another point. I've always wondered how the sticky fingers crowd could manage all the key-presses necessary for arranging proper security. One handed Dvorak keyboard mappings. mrc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: OT: *FREE* VPN! Why?

2015-08-06 Thread Jape Person
On 08/06/2015 02:28 PM, Mike Castle wrote: On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 9:36 AM, Jape Person jap...@comcast.net wrote: Brings up another point. I've always wondered how the sticky fingers crowd could manage all the key-presses necessary for arranging proper security. One handed Dvorak keyboard

Re: OT: *FREE* VPN! Why?

2015-08-06 Thread Some Body
On 06/08/2015 15:45, Bob Bernstein wrote: I became curious about the recent vpn thread here, and went browsing around the 'net. I was staggered (well, not really, that's just an expression, right?) to see the huge number of ventures offering free vpn. A lot of people use VPN to access content

Re: OT: *FREE* VPN! Why?

2015-08-06 Thread Gary Dale
pptp was an early M$ attempt at vpn. Not recommended. A popular use for vpn these days, at least in Canada, is to get access to U.S. versions of products such as Netflix. On 06/08/15 09:45 AM, Bob Bernstein wrote: I became curious about the recent vpn thread here, and went browsing around

Re: OT: *FREE* VPN! Why?

2015-08-06 Thread John Hasler
Bob Bernstein wrote: It can't be all those day traders wanting to use the hotel wifi to make their millions safely. So, here goes (send all the kids out of the room); is this all a porn thing? It's about accessing material that is geographically restricted for copyright reasons. For

Re: OT: *FREE* VPN! Why?

2015-08-06 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Thu, 2015-08-06 at 09:45 -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: It can't be all those day traders wanting to use the hotel wifi to make their millions safely. So, here goes (send all the kids out of the room); is this all a porn thing? If you are on public WiFi, why wouldn't you use a VPN to a

Re: OT: *FREE* VPN! Why?

2015-08-06 Thread Jape Person
On 08/06/2015 09:45 AM, Bob Bernstein wrote: I became curious about the recent vpn thread here, and went browsing around the 'net. I was staggered (well, not really, that's just an expression, right?) to see the huge number of ventures offering free vpn. I know what vpn is, and what it does,

Re: OT: *FREE* VPN! Why?

2015-08-06 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 8/6/15, John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com wrote: It's about accessing material that is geographically restricted for copyright reasons. For example, the BBC might purchase the right to distribute a work only in the UK and have agreed to block attempts to download it to IPs that geolocate

Re: OT: *FREE* VPN! Why?

2015-08-06 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Thu, 6 Aug 2015, Jape Person wrote: I could jump through all the hoops I wanted to, but using my ISP-provided e-mail account (even with encrypted contents and directed through a VPN) for communications with people at risk would be laughable. How much of that particular POV, expressed in