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People use VPN services, as opposed to say why enterprises use site-to-site VPNs, for a variety of reasons: - Access geo-restricted content on say Netflix - P
by beermonster 6y ago
People use VPN services, as opposed to say why enterprises use site-to-site VPNs, for a variety of reasons:
- Access geo-restricted content on say Netflix
- Privacy - one encrypted pipe to hide what you're doing
- Hide source IP address (perhaps for researching a competitors website etc)
- Protect insecure services (though the services would need to exist on the VPN endpoint or they would be exposed at the VPN->insecure service termination).
- Bypass ISP throttling (yup this works and is always funny as ISPs deny they do this but hey, easy to check!)
- Avoid censorship even in places like the UK (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_and_surveillance_by_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_and_survei...)
And more. So there's plenty of use-cases for a VPN in 2021. But it's worth thinking about how the threat model changes as a result of using one especially if you're not hosting it yourself.