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I'm not a network person, but couldn't this be relatively easily bypassed just by running the VPN on the router?
by logicchains 6y ago
I'm not a network person, but couldn't this be relatively easily bypassed just by running the VPN on the router?
- httgp 6y agoYes, but this isn’t an option that is readily available to everyone.
- quyleanh 6y agoYes, you can. However with average user, config router with VPN, proxy is a bit complicated. Bypass firewalls and VPNs on macOS is still terrible by the way.
- totalZero 6y agoYou can't run the VPN on the router if you don't own the router, which means that you can't protect your device's traffic when you're on the go, using mobile hotspot, or connecting to an ISP-supplied gateway without additional hardware.
- logicchains 6y agoIf I have a second phone (e.g. Android( running a hotspot, and I enable a VPN on that phone, will the hotspot / shared internet also go through the VPN, or will the hotspot bypass it?
- totalZero 6y agoWith my device and mobile service provider, the hotspot traffic does not route through the VPN that is active on the Android handset.
- BlueTemplar 6y agoFrankly, a fixed "Internet" Service Provider that doesn't provide you with a router (and leaves you the possibility to use your own) and a /48 IPv6 prefix should have no legal right to call that service "Internet" (in a similar way that Internet neutrality has to be legally respected) : https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-690 https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-690 (Mobile cellular Internet seems to be harder, but is there any reason why user's cell-'modem' can't handle the routing of successive /64 connections ?)
- sligor 6y agoIt only works at home. Or you need to always have and take your "router-in-the-middle" wherever you go, this is a way more complicated solution
- flower-giraffe 6y agoIn the future I think the tech savvy will be doing exactly that - pinefone as a wireless hotspot with wireguard to a anonymised proxy.