VPN

I signed up with a VPN (Virtual Private Network) service yesterday, shelling out $25 PayPal bucks for one year. I installed it on my desktop and my travel companions: the Nexus 10 tablet and my Acer Windows 10 netbook.

The primary purpose of this system is to keep me from being hacked while using public and hotel wifi connections. It cloaks your computer’s actual IP address and sends all traffic through a worldwide server of your choice (I chose one down in Utah), encrypting the data along the way.

One time last year I was using a hotel’s wireless service when my firewall caught a php program trying to sneak into my system. Hey, I write php code and I know what it can do! I killed it of course but when I walked out to the lobby later I spotted a towel-head hunkered down in the back area of their office, with a laptop. The bastard was probably intercepting their wifi hotspot and planting code on people’s computers to steal their data. I decided then and there, that the next time I travel, I wear protection.

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