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Exactly. I have four routers and never set up any account with them and the internet works amazing and everything is super cool. The routers are cooled down regularly so they can be used half of the day which means most of the time needed to use them.
As a third year student majoring cyber-security, I will say: smart decisions and having awareness of risks is significantly more important than having a VPN. Security is a practice, it relies on people following rules/policies and making good choices to minimize the likelihood of attack occurring. Don't buy into the fear-tactic marketing or buzz-phrases like "Military-grade encryption".
@@AllThingsSecured Recently a "Twin-Evil" Cyber Attack was made on my laptop & I'm not able to access my wifi & a unknown device named MAC4 is connected to my wifi router. What Should I Do? Kindly Help Please!
LOL "NO clickbait" imagine saying "NOT the ultimate security fix yeah hackers just use it so they dont get ddosed and there location is spoofed but like cmon this video is a waste of a lot of peoples
Exactly. I was really confused at first about all these people criticizing VPN. It does exactly what it's supposed to but what I wasn't aware of, was the misconceptions.
Yes, plenty of people who don't understand DO BUY FOR SECURITY. They buy the whole coffee-shop WIFI risk story and believe that this protects their bank details from all threats, because they have little choice but to extrapolate from the one valid claim that these shills can make.
@@poulwinther Just watch any of the youtubers touting them.... they extrapolate the protection of encryption in an open WIFI environment to ALL ACTIVITY, which doesn't apply.
@@ruripapi I do not know what they are. When I first arrived in China Google was ok, they had large offices here, but then there was some problem or other between them and China. It is a great place to live here though.
People whore overconfident and think they know EVERYTHING will neither know on what it depends (i.e. being able to determine AND accurately measure relevant variables) or admit they don't actually know. There is a reason we have statistics and confidence intervals. So yes, it depends 😊
Depending on what I am doing, I will avoid public Wi-Fi, and use my cellular phone's hotspot instead, since I have enough data in my phone plan. I have discontinue my VPN supscription after watching videos similar to this one. Thank you to people like you for saving us money.
Should I get a vpn to stream iptv live channels only. I watch my movies on Netflix and Amazon prime which these companies pay for there movies so I shouldnt have to use a vpn for that right? Just wondering..: Thanks for your info
100 percent on topic and on point regarding VPN. Its simply an extra layer of security that does not replace end user awareness and cybersecurity training.
Best video on RUclips by far explaining this. It annoys me so much seeing these so called "influencers" promoting all these products, especially VPN services and providing misinformation on a daily basis just so they can make a quick buck. Thank you for making such great content!
I mainly use my vpn to change my location in some cases its useful because sometimes content are blocked when ur on different country also the easy way for me chaging my IP .
The multi-million dollar question these days is: "Why on earth do people want to be influenced by somebody else"? Why don't people do their own research anymore, ask themselves what are important aspects for them, and thrust themselves.
Finally! Somebody that explains this clearly without bias. As an IT professional myself, I cringe when I hear some RUclips creators / marketers make ridiculous claims about what a VPN can do...
@Blawcky they get a paycheck for reading the script provided. When I was a teen, I thought that a vpn would protect me from viruses. Later i told my brother about the amazing world of VPNs, then he laughed at the virus protection statement. At that moment I thought about why he laughed, and realized I was just regurgitating marketing BS. And opened my mind to take everything anybody says with a grain of salt, except for a handful of people. and I have become more aware of the tactics people will use and I use those very same tactics today in my career. So yeah.
Ex IT professional now trying to get back into the IT world, damn fine explanation that hopefully helps people make an informed choice, without listening to a lot of the BS that is out there. New subscriber gained!! Keep up the good work!!
I was overseas (Philippines) No VPN. Before I left I notified my bank when I was going and when I was coming back. I logged into my account while overseas and they froze my account. I called them multiple times, yes they acknowledged it was noted on my account that I was going overseas . So why did they freeze it? I got the runaround after 10 calls I gave up. luckily a had a different bank account that did work. Didn't get it straightened out till I got back to the USA. My Question will a VPN make the bank think I'm still in the USA? Will I be able to do my banking without getting locked out again?
Best practice is to get a web bank card just for travels, then put money onto it with apps like Remitly or something of the sort. That way you keep the account separate and won't have any issues with cash flow. I have been doing it for years, my wife is from the Philippines .
Good explanation. I use a VPN for privacy reasons. Since all the data is encrypted, the ISP provider can not track the sites, that you have been visiting. The weak point is indeed that you have to trust the VPN provider and that they do not keep logs.
All VPNs keep logs, they or the hosting company has to in order to comply with various Laws. In the UK your data is logged and stored. The VPN often rents servers, so the company providing them or the connection logs.
I really think in an ideal world, high school classes would have some sort of internet safety course. I don’t blame anyone for their ignorance on this topic, but I do believe we can make systemic changes to fix it.
I'm surprised they don't frankly. My eldest has learned from me not to do stupid crap ... he did once and saw the repercussions from his virus that my firewall noticed and emailed me about IMMEDIATELY (gotta love Sophos UTM9). And whilst it's not a bad thing I educated him, I'm not sure why the school didn't at least share that burden.
There's no money to be made in internet safety classes. That's just one more way to keep people from exploring the web stores. It's all about the Benjamins! Why do you think the internet isn't being used to collaborate to make this world a better place? No advancements until profits are to be made from it. Government has dibs btw.
this is never going to happen because the government is the one who mainly tracks everything you do and everything you can do as well as directing you like a puppet to fit thierr needs not yours not anyone else there needs
@@mark6744-cb5tz except linux is still VERY lacking in many regards with hardware support amongst other things. I'm all for linux on servers but it's not there as a real non-geek desktop environment yet. Shame as OSX seems to have, just I hate crApple. Linux has it's share of virus's as well. And yes a lot of the newer viruses won't show on regular virus scanners, I wasn't suggesting it was an anti-virus that found it either if you read carefully.
:/ You don't know what you are doing with VPN this guy is Like "SECURTY" VPN systems literally all it is just changing your ip but it isn't then ultimate security fix i wouldn't Say *Straight to the point*
In certain countries, ISP's are required by law to log everywhere you visit and in some cases, save the actual data stream going to and from your computer. A simple demand for the SSL keys from a site you have visited exposes all the data you have exchanged with that site. A VPN stops the ISP from collecting data on where you visit and it also encrypts the data stream a second time. If you choose a VPN outside the jurisdiction of your country, they simply can't demand the encryption keys to access your data, If the VPN uses perfect forward privacy, even with the keys, they won't be able to decrypt your activities.
@@sirrivet9557the expression "decentralized" does not always correlate to blockchain. Operating on-premisis server hardware under your own control (instead of running a VPN on somebody elses server) is a form of decentralized operation. I run a decentralized instance of RCDevs MFA-VPN Server. No need for blockchain in this context. A similar misunderstanding exists when mentioning the expression "crypto": working in the field of "applied cryptography" does not necessarily mean that one is dealing with crypto currencies (that may be connected to blockchains). There is a vast number of application fields beyond crypto currencies dealing with highly sophisticated cryptographic algorithms and protocols.
Preach Josh, preach! I've just found your channel and I am loving the content you're putting out. I appreciate the clear and concise videos that have a simple goal - to educate people about online and data security for themselves. Keep up the great work!
If you are using properly secured Wi-Fi at home a firewall is more important. The VPN gives you no added security. Your plain open router still exists as an up address. You want a VPN if you use open or other shared wifi.
There's a middle ground between using a VPN in order to hide when trying break into the pentagon's intranet and not wanting the moderator behind a message board you post on knowing your IP address information. This is something that nerds (not you) screaming "VPN are useless!!!" need to realize. I use a VPN for the latter of the two reasons. Nuance is important in intelligent debate.
@@DragonsGaura Basically, Pair that with and good encryption tool (Like VeraCrypt) And you´re all good. They need to catch u when the PC is on and logged in, and glhf with that.
Bravo, its great that people like you are saying this and that the message gets spread far and wide. The weakest link in any secure system is the person that needs it
I just want to add that another legitimate reason for using a VPN (and also one of the reasons they were developed) is to remotely connect to another (private) network, hence the name "Virtual Private Network". It can be very useful to connect to, for example, your company's intranet to access services within your company's network while working remotely. In this case, the VPN service will be provided by YOUR company of course. Thanks a lot for making this video as it will hopefully clear up the mis-understanding that a lot of people have about VPNs (that VPN companies make them believe!)
@@sgholt Not necessarily. My first use of VPNs was to link several sites in one business so that everyone was on the same apparent LAN, servers synchronised all data immediately and invisibly, and the same logins worked wherever you were on the network, gave access to the same data (and still denied access to anything you would not be accessing), and even allowed you to have the same desktop (subject to screen resolution) if you logged in in the US or UK, as user profiles were replicated along with other data. If someone on a different continent needed a hardcopy of one of the documents you owned, you could print it right to their local printer, although of course, the US use of non-ISO paper sizes did create some formatting problems in the early stages of the roll-out, this was soon eliminated by the use of standard templates which fit on both 8.5"x11" and A4, but with different margins. We just used internal IP addresses in the rfc1918 private sector of 192.168.x.x space, and at a company-wide level supernetted them onto a /21 CIDR network, although locally, each site used a different /24 subnet for its own DHCP server. Given the technology of the time (pre-ADSL) it all worked remarkably well. We even had VOIP working so that a user at any site could dial out of any other site as well as their own, the VOIP software choosing the route which gave the least expensive call automatically. No Warez involved, at all.
I worked as a product development engineer designing high-end computers for a couple of decades... been using systems online since the 90s. I've never used an antivirus and I've never had a virus.
Correction: Public IP addresses are not assigned to each device but rather to each network connection (like a router or a cell tower). Let's say that your smartphone and laptop are connected to the same router, they will be assigned separate "private IP addresses" by the router's NAT protocol but their "public IP address" will be the same. Each device does have a permanent visible address called a mac address (there are exceptions to this and these addresses can be spoofed). Rule of thumb: Literally no one is unhackable, not even the NSA.
Very clear. I aways thought this was true, but it's nice to hear in a clear succint format. One thing that confuses me, is you say at 2:22 that your deviced gets a assigned an IP addresses. I thought this was not fixed to your device (eg) computer but maybe to a modem. And on some networks it's reassigned each time you sign on, but when you sign on to a VPN, the VPN knows your IP address but not the apps you use, they don't know the location of your device, only the VPN.
You gotta just love and respect it when you get an honest opinion, combined with factual data and the presenter isn’t sponsored by what they are promoting. Sir, you just gained a follower and a friend. 😃 Thank You
Yea... you can look at it that way. I would say VPN's are poorly marketed, as its more of a service for combating general restriction, location tracking and ISP monitoring. Which at least 2 of those three things are universal problems. SO its not like they are lying, just grossly exaggerating the service.
@@asoftraiden Yeah this video was an unfortunate waste of my time... I thought it would bring up some really interesting and new info about VPN limitations and instead I got a talking head reexplaining the majority of a VPN's user base.
Thank You for your ongoing information. It has really helped me and parents (65 + people using computers). They almost got hacked but called me first and I thwarted it before it happened. Keep Up the Great work!!
"every inbound e-mail and PHONE CALL that you receive" Yes, the Nigerian Prince has a phone! And he keeps track of every time people get money. Which is often with governments providing help during the pandemic.
As a former IT guy, I knew much of this. But you've also provided the no-nonsense clarity of security which is just using common sense and being skeptical of everything coming your way and confirmed, to me, that I'm already doing the right thing, but wasn't sure.
@@madfinntech sad thing is, people believed that since bible times forward until when ? oh the 17th century !? nice. I guess everyone before the 17th century were just taught that the earth was flat because IT IS. And after the 17th century everyone got taught it was a globe because it isn't.
How does my isp see the RUclips traffic in an incripted vpn tunnel??????? My browser is only communicating through my incripted vpn tunnel no one can see the actual tcp packets!!!!!!
Fun Fact: When I worked in IT for 22 years, I saw 80% are ignorant trolls who pretend to know everything inside out passing several top notch certifications and 20% who are the real professionals with a handful of certifications
Incredibly illuminating. I'm a casual tech user, not a silicone valley acolyte, and I found this explanation extremely clear and very practical. Thanks a bunch.
A while ago, I actually signed up for NordVPN, and I have to say, it did wonders for helping diagnose a connection issue. I guess somewhere down the line, our connection was being throttled and very slow, but the VPN was able to resolve this. It...doesn't make much sense that it worked, but it did, so I was pretty grateful for that. Once our connection issue got fixed, I pretty much ditched VPNs entirely. The only thing I'd really use a VPN for is literally just for the private networking part of it and one of the whole reasons VPNs exist; where I can connect to our internal work server when I'm not on the local network. I wholeheartedly agree with this video, thank you for sharing and reinforcing what I've been telling people for years.
Social engineering, destroying all your network security since the beginning of the internet and something a VPN cannot protect against. Thanks for a great and honest video on the subject.
As a 50 year old man who never took to the digital age I appreciate your analogies and your obvious commitment to educating truth.I never had a MySpace account, only purchased a smartphone a year and a half ago and opened a Facebook when covid hit so I could stay in touch with Family on the East Coast. Oddly enough though I have come to realize that my grave lack of experience with computers has given me a very strong sixth sense about applications and devices and can detect their weaknesses but have no clue on how to defend it.Please teach me Cyber Kung Fu Sincerely Tandy 1000
Thanks for the great synopses! It didn't teach me anything new, I've been doing IT & IT Sec for 20+ years combined, but this is great content for the average user who might be sold by the crooked ads with outrageous claims.
@@AllThingsSecured Not at all! Thank YOU for being a straight-shooter and providing some honest facts about VPNs. Everything you said made more sense than all the "perfect protection" propaganda of these others just trying to sell/pitch products for monetization and/or views. The one thing you said that really resonated with me was the one thing I have often said myself , that the BIGGEST THREAT to any computer anywhere is... well, what's that old tech support joke, about n00bs who mess up their own computers and the CSR them to look for the "1D10T" in front of the keyboard, lol. .. I think some folks are STILL looking...
@@AllThingsSecured Not at all! Thank YOU for being a straight-shooter and providing some honest facts about VPNs. Everything you said made more sense than all the "perfect protection" propaganda of these others just trying to sell/pitch products for monetization and/or views. The one thing you said that really resonated with me was the one thing I have often said myself , that the BIGGEST THREAT to any computer anywhere is... well, what's that old tech support joke, about n00bs who mess up their own computers and the CSR tells them to "look for the "1D10T" in front of the keyboard", lol. .. I think some folks are STILL looking...
Thanks for making this video! Every time I see one of those VPN ads, I go "Aaaaaargh! Some poor sap is gonna fall for this." One thing I feel you should emphasize more though is the Privacy/Anonymity thing, since that's one of the main selling point of those ads: Everything you hide from your ISP, you show the VPN service instead. Don't trust your ISP with that information? That's fine, but why should you trust your VPN service more? Anyway, I'll make sure to show this video to my social circle :D
@@AllThingsSecured It depends on who you are trying to hide from. ISPs generally have ties to a country's government so they are more ready to share information with the gov. Getting information from a foreign country's VPN can be a jurisdiction nightmare (depending upon the country).
I gotta say, I find myself more inclined to trust the VPN company than ATnT or Verizon. At least the VPN company hasn't PROVEN itself to be willing to sell you to the highest bidder.
That last point is gold. Been online since dialup and can count on less than one hand the number of security issues I've had to handle, all resolved myself in short order. Ultimately - Nothing beats the security suite right between your ears.
Recently I was feeling really nervous about going around on the internet, especially because all the VPN ads had been starting to get me feeling like my password on the internet weren’t enough but this video honestly helped a lot, although I might still get a VPN just to location spoof for the hell of it
Lots of people use the wireless networks of others. That’s a major risk, especially on public WiFi networks. So yeah it can protect you from hackers. Saying it can’t is as stupid as saying it will.
As a pentester, I couldn't agree more. If someone uses a VPN, it usually doesn't make any difference in the way I attack them (legal contract, of course!). 90% of times it's either phishing, social engineering or crafting personalized emails with attached payloads, none of which are affected by the fact that the client uses a VPN. The only realistic scenario where it causes problems is sniffing traffic during a local MITM attack, which is pretty rare, unless you're doing something shady like a public honeypot...
@@anonymousandy2789 Sure! First, we'd have to discuss the details such as the cost and the scope of the pentest, and then sign a contract. In the case of a single host like a consumer router, the price varies from 800 to 1500 USD, depending on how extensive the test should be.
@@anatolydyatlov963 well in that case I'd like to build my security centric Linux distro and Android ROM and then have a cousin of mine talk to you. Taking applications for apprenticeship?
@@RoCkShaDoWWaLkEr Took the words out of my mouth. Accountable, for what exactly? Yes, YT channel operators often do paid promotion for VPNs, but if you really listen to the detail, they are not making untrue claims. As I hear it, they are usually making fair claims but dressed up with alot of vague fluff.
As someone in this business, I appreciate your straight talk and the common sense approach - excellent. Why do we call it "common sense" since it is not very common?
Good video, on the bright side, the videos I saw about vpns before yours, I only saw 2 tbh, told me the same pros, keeping information from isp and location specific streaming. You have a much better delivery than them tho.
@@Bryan-Hensley What's even funnier, I work for an ISP, and my job is sorting information from our users that I pass on to another department so that the information can be sold
I got a vpn just to impress a hot computer science major who lived across the hall from me, she rejected me hard, but the location specific streaming has been a lifesaver during lockdowns
Great information. Using VPN moves my trust from my ISP and internal network to the breakout point of the VPN provider. These private VPN are useable to move the trust when you are in an internet cafe or using open hotspots, completely untrusted places to use the internet.
Never underestimate human stupidity. Something I love about people is everyone thinks they are an expert. Why are people so afraid to be wrong? Do people honestly think everything they say is fact? All a VPN does is simply take your connections history and visited websites and give it to another company. Thinking it will protect you is really dumb and I don't understand why anyone would ever think that? The best protection is you, not software. Good video!!
This is great, but I'd argue that "better passwords" should not even be on the list. The number of * I put in my password means absolutely nothing if the site I visit is breached, which is how most passwords are obtained.
not quite true, a reliable site will not store your password only a hashed version. SO even if the site is hacked they won't know your password. Even the site owners won't know your password. ALso if you use a complex unique password for each site, then one password hacked is not going to go far. All sites should hash passwords.
Ignore this guy about VPN's. Get one. He says they're not safe, but... if you select a VPN server in countries like Holland, Sweden, Spain - they have laws that protect the individual from authorities abusing their power. Court Orders are needed there to check logs and so on - because it's private information. Obviously all the other advice is fine, and pertinent, but if you value your privacy, use VPN's, set-up fake email accounts, Social Media accounts and so on - you saw what happened to those British people who got locked up for posting spicy comments on Facebook.
Besides being skeptical, ads, misinformation, the most valuable asset you have is sounding sincere and honest, thanks for the info, everything makes more sense with your explanation, I used to be paranoid about having internet security suites and Norton or NOD32 and after some other folks like you I realized common sense was 1st priority for security.
Josh (or anyone really), I believe I have asked you this before but didn't get a response: Is there anyway other than a VPN to protect oneself against DDoS attacks? Other than that, thanks for the helpful content.
4:44 Not just DNS, also the IPs you connect to. Encrypted DNS can be achieved for free without a VPN with DoH or DoT, but it will still be possible to monitor the IPs of the servers you connect to.
I’m not an expert or nothing but an iPhone is supposed to be extremely secure the only way someone is “hacking” you is if they have access to your iCloud or you downloaded something you were not supposed to
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Can someone monitor your activity if using open wifi even if the website is secured with TLS?
I just want privacy for ps4 online some kid was telling me my location
I've been completely hacked i can't even google anything could u please help me sir I just lucked up an seen ur vid hear ?
@Game Start But what about TLS though? Can someone still see your activity using open wifi even on websites with TLS encryption?
@@ericlewis8264 So, what exactly can you do? Can you still work click on things in the O.S space?
Security is a practice, not a product.
Exactly. I have four routers and never set up any account with them and the internet works amazing and everything is super cool. The routers are cooled down regularly so they can be used half of the day which means most of the time needed to use them.
well obviouslly, security is a general noun
agreed
Yes your statement makes this video useless.
@@Yatukih_001 your routers get hot?
As a third year student majoring cyber-security, I will say: smart decisions and having awareness of risks is significantly more important than having a VPN. Security is a practice, it relies on people following rules/policies and making good choices to minimize the likelihood of attack occurring. Don't buy into the fear-tactic marketing or buzz-phrases like "Military-grade encryption".
Agreed. The marketing terms are there to impress you, not educate you.
Military grade is usually garbage
I have a question can you help me answer please ? It's In regards to a good source VPN I can trust. And a follow up question please ?
@D. Johnston 702 yes. Any thing you do online wants you to sign up
@@AllThingsSecured Recently a "Twin-Evil" Cyber Attack was made on my laptop & I'm not able to access my wifi & a unknown device named MAC4 is connected to my wifi router.
What Should I Do?
Kindly Help Please!
I appreciate people like you. People that bring hard information. No click bait ads and hype.
Thanks for the kind words, Thomas.
No click bait, the title is exactly that its Click Bait 101
LOL "NO clickbait" imagine saying "NOT the ultimate security fix yeah hackers just use it so they dont get ddosed and there location is spoofed but like cmon this video is a waste of a lot of peoples
@@AllThingsSecured Yes Thanks ;)
the title is literally "Don't use a VPN"
how is that not clickbait?
Nobody buys a vpn for "security". They buy it for "privacy". There is a huge difference.
Yes, if I had a VPN I would use it for priracy
Exactly. I was really confused at first about all these people criticizing VPN. It does exactly what it's supposed to but what I wasn't aware of, was the misconceptions.
@@pluto9000Piracy? Iv heard some work for torrentz?
Yes, plenty of people who don't understand DO BUY FOR SECURITY. They buy the whole coffee-shop WIFI risk story and believe that this protects their bank details from all threats, because they have little choice but to extrapolate from the one valid claim that these shills can make.
@@poulwinther Just watch any of the youtubers touting them.... they extrapolate the protection of encryption in an open WIFI environment to ALL ACTIVITY, which doesn't apply.
Imagine if he ended the video. “this video is made possible by our sponsor: _____VPN”
Tom scott
ROFL
😂
Don’t forget Tunnel Bear
VPN or RAID SHADOW LEGENDS. Pick your poison. lol
Yes, you are right. I am watching this video on RUclips using a VPN, I have to because I am in China.
there are unblocker services
@@ruripapi I do not know what they are. When I first arrived in China Google was ok, they had large offices here, but then there was some problem or other between them and China. It is a great place to live here though.
@@paulhogan2930 they bypass the firewall
Thanks for the info.
@@paulhogan2930 most likely won't work as china tighten their securities besides that which province are you living at
You can often tell how reliable and trustworthy a person is by how many times they say: "it depends".
"It depends."
~ Red sus
we start out in diapers and then end up in "Depends" 😲
My favorite one is " if you follow trough all the steps and you are constant"; just add the "it depends" at the beginning.
Are they trustworthy if they say depends a lot or a little? I have a bunch of former students who I might need to apologize to.
People whore overconfident and think they know EVERYTHING will neither know on what it depends (i.e. being able to determine AND accurately measure relevant variables) or admit they don't actually know. There is a reason we have statistics and confidence intervals. So yes, it depends 😊
Depending on what I am doing, I will avoid public Wi-Fi, and use my cellular phone's hotspot instead, since I have enough data in my phone plan. I have discontinue my VPN supscription after watching videos similar to this one. Thank you to people like you for saving us money.
This man just killed every tech RUclipsrs career.
Except Tom Scott and Techquickie who also dismissed VPNs.
Nope because as the man said you can't cure stupid.
good... the world is a better place without them
Not exactly
Except everyone ...
Finally an honest guy that’s not affiliated to this vpn companies. I’m subscribing to your channel , dude. Thanks
Thanks, Alberto.
Should I get a vpn to stream iptv live channels only. I watch my movies on Netflix and Amazon prime which these companies pay for there movies so I shouldnt have to use a vpn for that right? Just wondering..: Thanks for your info
@@stayhumble6437 Wdym? Do you wanna access Netflix and Amazon of other countries? If so Vpn is the right tool for you.
EXCEPT when you see him PUSH (although he says it's an unbiosed review) NORDVPN in one of his previous videos ...
can you say hypocrisy ?
@@EJSmith-dk3yg just because he uses a VPN doesn't mean he is untrustworthy.
100 percent on topic and on point regarding VPN. Its simply an extra layer of security that does not replace end user awareness and cybersecurity training.
Thanks, Shane!
Education comes in many flavors. I suppose it doesn't always have to be truth.
Best video on RUclips by far explaining this. It annoys me so much seeing these so called "influencers" promoting all these products, especially VPN services and providing misinformation on a daily basis just so they can make a quick buck. Thank you for making such great content!
I mainly use my vpn to change my location in some cases its useful because sometimes content are blocked when ur on different country also the easy way for me chaging my IP .
The multi-million dollar question these days is: "Why on earth do people want to be influenced by somebody else"? Why don't people do their own research anymore, ask themselves what are important aspects for them, and thrust themselves.
Finally! Somebody that explains this clearly without bias.
As an IT professional myself, I cringe when I hear some RUclips creators / marketers make ridiculous claims about what a VPN can do...
Shows how nobody researches this, even those who get sponsored 💀
@@BlawckyNord vpn Get now ! Pay only 999.999$ Per day for Maximum Protection and safety
@Blawcky they get a paycheck for reading the script provided. When I was a teen, I thought that a vpn would protect me from viruses. Later i told my brother about the amazing world of VPNs, then he laughed at the virus protection statement. At that moment I thought about why he laughed, and realized I was just regurgitating marketing BS. And opened my mind to take everything anybody says with a grain of salt, except for a handful of people. and I have become more aware of the tactics people will use and I use those very same tactics today in my career. So yeah.
@@Blawcky Agreed, but more than that, it shows that their marketing really works!
That’s because they’re reading a script that was given to them.
FACT @ 3:07 "It's virtually impossible to be 100% private" (Learn it. Know it. Live it.)
the only way to be 100% private is to not be on the internet at all
Unless you are NASA
What about that island in the Indian Ocean if you try to visit and the indigenous people will kill u. Pretty private to me lol
@Bank help tech paypal manipulate your numbers. you carry a tracker and identification willingly in your pocket it’s called a phone
@PAYPAL manipulates your numbers with help of bank. You're a nut.
Ex IT professional now trying to get back into the IT world, damn fine explanation that hopefully helps people make an informed choice, without listening to a lot of the BS that is out there. New subscriber gained!! Keep up the good work!!
I was overseas (Philippines) No VPN. Before I left I notified my bank when I was going and when I was coming back. I logged into my account while overseas and they froze my account. I called them multiple times, yes they acknowledged it was noted on my account that I was going overseas . So why did they freeze it? I got the runaround after 10 calls I gave up. luckily a had a different bank account that did work. Didn't get it straightened out till I got back to the USA. My Question will a VPN make the bank think I'm still in the USA? Will I be able to do my banking without getting locked out again?
You'd want to host your own VPN right out of your home so it still shows as coming from a residential IP address to be safe.
My experience is that when you use VPN they do not freeze or block you when you travel... But without it I get my email accounts blocked.
@@soundspark That shouldn’t be necessary, otherwise a lot of people would be affected as a result of using VPNs when doing online banking
But as soon as you use your card somewhere other than your registered home location they'll deny your transactions 😒
Best practice is to get a web bank card just for travels, then put money onto it with apps like Remitly or something of the sort. That way you keep the account separate and won't have any issues with cash flow. I have been doing it for years, my wife is from the Philippines .
Good explanation. I use a VPN for privacy reasons. Since all the data is encrypted, the ISP provider can not track the sites, that you have been visiting. The weak point is indeed that you have to trust the VPN provider and that they do not keep logs.
Which VPN do you recommend?
which do you use?
All VPNs keep logs, they or the hosting company has to in order to comply with various Laws. In the UK your data is logged and stored. The VPN often rents servers, so the company providing them or the connection logs.
Keep Logs and sharing them are two different things.
I really think in an ideal world, high school classes would have some sort of internet safety course. I don’t blame anyone for their ignorance on this topic, but I do believe we can make systemic changes to fix it.
I'm surprised they don't frankly. My eldest has learned from me not to do stupid crap ... he did once and saw the repercussions from his virus that my firewall noticed and emailed me about IMMEDIATELY (gotta love Sophos UTM9). And whilst it's not a bad thing I educated him, I'm not sure why the school didn't at least share that burden.
In an ideal world, science would be taught in public school. Not history of ignorant slaveowners.
There's no money to be made in internet safety classes. That's just one more way to keep people from exploring the web stores. It's all about the Benjamins!
Why do you think the internet isn't being used to collaborate to make this world a better place? No advancements until profits are to be made from it. Government has dibs btw.
this is never going to happen because the government is the one who mainly tracks everything you do and everything you can do as well as directing you like a puppet to fit thierr needs not yours not anyone else there needs
@@mark6744-cb5tz except linux is still VERY lacking in many regards with hardware support amongst other things. I'm all for linux on servers but it's not there as a real non-geek desktop environment yet. Shame as OSX seems to have, just I hate crApple. Linux has it's share of virus's as well.
And yes a lot of the newer viruses won't show on regular virus scanners, I wasn't suggesting it was an anti-virus that found it either if you read carefully.
Straight to the point - I wish all YT vids were like this.
Thanks!
:/ You don't know what you are doing with VPN this guy is Like "SECURTY" VPN systems literally all it is just changing your ip but it isn't then ultimate security fix i wouldn't Say *Straight to the point*
Your video was reassuring. It basically tells me that I chose to subscribe to a VPN for all of the right reasons and none of the wrong ones.
Thank you for this video, you're one of the small amount of youtuber who actually know what they are talking about. You deserve a lot more attention.
Thanks, Derek.
@@AllThingsSecured host my own vpn
In certain countries, ISP's are required by law to log everywhere you visit and in some cases, save the actual data stream going to and from your computer. A simple demand for the SSL keys from a site you have visited exposes all the data you have exchanged with that site. A VPN stops the ISP from collecting data on where you visit and it also encrypts the data stream a second time. If you choose a VPN outside the jurisdiction of your country, they simply can't demand the encryption keys to access your data, If the VPN uses perfect forward privacy, even with the keys, they won't be able to decrypt your activities.
So,
Your ISP dont know what websites you are visiting ?
Well, web 3 might be a solution in the future. I'm not advertising it, but I do have a decentralized VPN hardware. It works well so far.
What makes the Decentralized VPN better? Because data isnt logged, so can't be hacked? How are you liking it so far? Easy to use or what
@hye quin yea deeper is good. There're a couple of options available depending on if you're using it at home or on the road.
You don’t need the blockchain to have a decentralized vpn service lol
@@sirrivet9557the expression "decentralized" does not always correlate to blockchain.
Operating on-premisis server hardware under your own control (instead of running a VPN on somebody elses server) is a form of decentralized operation.
I run a decentralized instance of RCDevs MFA-VPN Server. No need for blockchain in this context.
A similar misunderstanding exists when mentioning the expression "crypto":
working in the field of "applied cryptography" does not necessarily mean that one is dealing with crypto currencies (that may be connected to blockchains).
There is a vast number of application fields beyond crypto currencies dealing with highly sophisticated cryptographic algorithms and protocols.
@@sirrivet9557yeah this guy doesn’t even what he’s talking about 😂
Preach Josh, preach! I've just found your channel and I am loving the content you're putting out. I appreciate the clear and concise videos that have a simple goal - to educate people about online and data security for themselves. Keep up the great work!
I appreciate the kind words! 🙏
We need more honest folks like yourself on social media giving complex information out there today.
There's no money to be made with honesty. 🤣
@@budsak7771 That's It!
...accurately.
...precisely.
"Don't Use a VPN.".... a little bit misleading title there...
Nice video tho
Agreed! A better title would have been something like - False claims about the benefits of VPN: Do you really need one?
textbook example of CLICKBAIT
its just another youtube milking a fucking controversial claim for views nothing new
If you are using properly secured Wi-Fi at home a firewall is more important. The VPN gives you no added security. Your plain open router still exists as an up address.
You want a VPN if you use open or other shared wifi.
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"This video was sponsored by NordVPN!"
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*sick of hearing that a video has been sponsored by a VPN. . . who needs sponsorship for an internet video??
Just asking.
He should have done that at the end! I would have wet myself laughing.
@@davidadams421 TMI
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"You can't fix stupid" I have been beating that drum for YEARS!
There's a middle ground between using a VPN in order to hide when trying break into the pentagon's intranet and not wanting the moderator behind a message board you post on knowing your IP address information. This is something that nerds (not you) screaming "VPN are useless!!!" need to realize. I use a VPN for the latter of the two reasons.
Nuance is important in intelligent debate.
exactly.
Came for this. You need VPNs in cybercrime, they‘re basically the greatest security you can have.
so a vpn hides your criminal activity?
@@DragonsGaura Basically, Pair that with and good encryption tool (Like VeraCrypt) And you´re all good. They need to catch u when the PC is on and logged in, and glhf with that.
@@DragonsGaura Dont use any vpn that signs u up with credentials as email, name etc. tho, Just keep it safe and use your head and its all good.
Bravo, its great that people like you are saying this and that the message gets spread far and wide. The weakest link in any secure system is the person that needs it
I just want to add that another legitimate reason for using a VPN (and also one of the reasons they were developed) is to remotely connect to another (private) network, hence the name "Virtual Private Network". It can be very useful to connect to, for example, your company's intranet to access services within your company's network while working remotely.
In this case, the VPN service will be provided by YOUR company of course.
Thanks a lot for making this video as it will hopefully clear up the mis-understanding that a lot of people have about VPNs (that VPN companies make them believe!)
@@sgholt Not necessarily.
My first use of VPNs was to link several sites in one business so that everyone was on the same apparent LAN, servers synchronised all data immediately and invisibly, and the same logins worked wherever you were on the network, gave access to the same data (and still denied access to anything you would not be accessing), and even allowed you to have the same desktop (subject to screen resolution) if you logged in in the US or UK, as user profiles were replicated along with other data. If someone on a different continent needed a hardcopy of one of the documents you owned, you could print it right to their local printer, although of course, the US use of non-ISO paper sizes did create some formatting problems in the early stages of the roll-out, this was soon eliminated by the use of standard templates which fit on both 8.5"x11" and A4, but with different margins.
We just used internal IP addresses in the rfc1918 private sector of 192.168.x.x space, and at a company-wide level supernetted them onto a /21 CIDR network, although locally, each site used a different /24 subnet for its own DHCP server.
Given the technology of the time (pre-ADSL) it all worked remarkably well. We even had VOIP working so that a user at any site could dial out of any other site as well as their own, the VOIP software choosing the route which gave the least expensive call automatically.
No Warez involved, at all.
Been dealing with corporate client vpn and site-to-site VPNs last 15 years..
That is NOT what VPNs mentioned on youtube are for or sold for. Corporate VPNs are different.
I worked as a product development engineer designing high-end computers for a couple of decades... been using systems online since the 90s. I've never used an antivirus and I've never had a virus.
Great and well put video. Keep up the good work! Your speech is amazing, soothing
Thank you so much!
Correction: Public IP addresses are not assigned to each device but rather to each network connection (like a router or a cell tower).
Let's say that your smartphone and laptop are connected to the same router, they will be assigned separate "private IP addresses" by the router's NAT protocol but their "public IP address" will be the same.
Each device does have a permanent visible address called a mac address (there are exceptions to this and these addresses can be spoofed).
Rule of thumb: Literally no one is unhackable, not even the NSA.
Thanks for the clarification!
But it is the “watch Netflix from another country” product I was promised.
Great! Then you should be good to go.
Not all VPN's work with Netflix
@@tonysicily2687 Nord VPN and Express VPN.
Yes. Most of them. At least the ad was honest.
My NordVPN does not work with Netflix. Even though I connect to a US server, I still see the shitty content served in Europe.
Very clear. I aways thought this was true, but it's nice to hear in a clear succint format. One thing that confuses me, is you say at 2:22 that your deviced gets a assigned an IP addresses. I thought this was not fixed to your device (eg) computer but maybe to a modem. And on some networks it's reassigned each time you sign on, but when you sign on to a VPN, the VPN knows your IP address but not the apps you use, they don't know the location of your device, only the VPN.
You gotta just love and respect it when you get an honest opinion, combined with factual data and the presenter isn’t sponsored by what they are promoting. Sir, you just gained a follower and a friend. 😃 Thank You
YES , I just came across his channel and had also earned another subscriber from me.
Well said.
Honest instead of influenced? 🤣
Makes me put the question of Who is the real influencer? out there
wouldn't matter to me, even if it was paid promo...... I do my own research as well..
Thank you. You have a point that the biggest internet security threat is ourselves!!!
It's true!
Finally a person telling the truth.
I make VPN servers, so this is obvious.
*Tom Scott, Teckquickie, etc.
If most of your use is on public wifi, maybe get a VPN.
Every other situation is highly specific and probably doesn't even apply to you.
Yea... you can look at it that way. I would say VPN's are poorly marketed, as its more of a service for combating general restriction, location tracking and ISP monitoring. Which at least 2 of those three things are universal problems. SO its not like they are lying, just grossly exaggerating the service.
@@asoftraiden Yeah this video was an unfortunate waste of my time... I thought it would bring up some really interesting and new info about VPN limitations and instead I got a talking head reexplaining the majority of a VPN's user base.
Thank You for your ongoing information. It has really helped me and parents (65 + people using computers). They almost got hacked but called me first and I thwarted it before it happened. Keep Up the Great work!!
Fantastic no BS video! Thanks very much!
With that being said, which VPN would you recommend? I have VPN with my Norton 360, but is there something better?
anything is better than norton :)
"every inbound e-mail and PHONE CALL that you receive"
Yes, the Nigerian Prince has a phone! And he keeps track of every time people get money. Which is often with governments providing help during the pandemic.
As a former IT guy, I knew much of this. But you've also provided the no-nonsense clarity of security which is just using common sense and being skeptical of everything coming your way and confirmed, to me, that I'm already doing the right thing, but wasn't sure.
Nailed it.
Wow! I need to learn one of two things from you. That intro was just wow! ✌️👌
Ha! Thanks so much 🙏🙏
They are fear mongering liars
Being skeptical is indeed a good advice. That's me my whole life, lol :)
Just don't take it so far you become a flat-earther.
@@madfinntech 😂
And be sure to wear your tin foil hat too. They can read minds.;)
@hastur Dagon or pretend to be an Idiot so you don’t need to explain anything at all🤣
@@madfinntech sad thing is, people believed that since bible times forward until when ? oh the 17th century !? nice. I guess everyone before the 17th century were just taught that the earth was flat because IT IS. And after the 17th century everyone got taught it was a globe because it isn't.
How does my isp see the RUclips traffic in an incripted vpn tunnel??????? My browser is only communicating through my incripted vpn tunnel no one can see the actual tcp packets!!!!!!
Did he say that somewhere in this video?
Fun Fact: When I worked in IT for 22 years, I saw 80% are ignorant trolls who pretend to know everything inside out passing several top notch certifications and 20% who are the real professionals with a handful of certifications
Incredibly illuminating. I'm a casual tech user, not a silicone valley acolyte, and I found this explanation extremely clear and very practical. Thanks a bunch.
yeah they help you get around censorship on the web but they do not protect you from hackers and bad people on the web
Can't help but to subscribe! Man easy to understand as a non-prodessional tech.
Thanks so much.
Awesome video! It's always nice when somebody puts out no-nonsense info, especially on things that have become snake oil.
Glad it was helpful, Matthew!
أنت أفضل شخص يقدم محتوي مفيد على كل هذا الكوكب ❤❤❤❤❤❤ You are the best person providing useful content on the whole planet
A while ago, I actually signed up for NordVPN, and I have to say, it did wonders for helping diagnose a connection issue. I guess somewhere down the line, our connection was being throttled and very slow, but the VPN was able to resolve this. It...doesn't make much sense that it worked, but it did, so I was pretty grateful for that. Once our connection issue got fixed, I pretty much ditched VPNs entirely. The only thing I'd really use a VPN for is literally just for the private networking part of it and one of the whole reasons VPNs exist; where I can connect to our internal work server when I'm not on the local network. I wholeheartedly agree with this video, thank you for sharing and reinforcing what I've been telling people for years.
Glad you were able to get the throttling issue resolved!
Social engineering, destroying all your network security since the beginning of the internet and something a VPN cannot protect against. Thanks for a great and honest video on the subject.
Thanks. 🙏
As a 50 year old man who never took to the digital age I appreciate your analogies and your obvious commitment to educating truth.I never had a MySpace account, only purchased a smartphone a year and a half ago and opened a Facebook when covid hit so I could stay in touch with Family on the East Coast. Oddly enough though I have come to realize that my grave lack of experience with computers has given me a very strong sixth sense about applications and devices and can detect their weaknesses but have no clue on how to defend it.Please teach me Cyber Kung Fu
Sincerely Tandy 1000
Thanks so much, Brandon! I’m so glad to hear that it was helpful.
Whoa a Tandy. Radio Shack sends it regards.
At 50 you are anything but not old 😄
Ha ha, Tandy 1000! I loved my Tandy 1000 back in the day, and I'm 22 years older than you.
@@brindlekintales nah ... go the commodore :P
Thanks for the great synopses! It didn't teach me anything new, I've been doing IT & IT Sec for 20+ years combined, but this is great content for the average user who might be sold by the crooked ads with outrageous claims.
Thank you for keeping it real !
I'm using Nord VPN since 7 or so years, so I can watch Swiss and German live-TV here in Canada. Always works fine.
I don't think people get it to protect themselves so much as to watch Netflix in other regions.
I got it to protect myself from copyright infringement
Best VPN tutorial I have seen. No sales pitch. Used a VPN for several years. Helps with geo blocking for programming...most of the time.
Agreed
This has to be one of the best and most honest videos I have seen.
Thanks for the kind words!
@@AllThingsSecured
Not at all! Thank YOU for being a straight-shooter and providing some honest facts about VPNs.
Everything you said made more sense than all the "perfect protection" propaganda of these others just trying to sell/pitch products for monetization and/or views.
The one thing you said that really resonated with me was the one thing I have often said myself , that the BIGGEST THREAT to any computer anywhere is... well, what's that old tech support joke, about n00bs who mess up their own computers and the CSR them to look for the "1D10T" in front of the keyboard, lol. ..
I think some folks are STILL looking...
@@AllThingsSecured
Not at all! Thank YOU for being a straight-shooter and providing some honest facts about VPNs.
Everything you said made more sense than all the "perfect protection" propaganda of these others just trying to sell/pitch products for monetization and/or views.
The one thing you said that really resonated with me was the one thing I have often said myself , that the BIGGEST THREAT to any computer anywhere is... well, what's that old tech support joke, about n00bs who mess up their own computers and the CSR tells them to "look for the "1D10T" in front of the keyboard", lol. ..
I think some folks are STILL looking...
@@AllThingsSecured true. Thanks so much. I am French. Love your videos. Thanks. I subscribed. Great job!
You must not have seen a lot of videos
Thanks for making this video! Every time I see one of those VPN ads, I go "Aaaaaargh! Some poor sap is gonna fall for this."
One thing I feel you should emphasize more though is the Privacy/Anonymity thing, since that's one of the main selling point of those ads: Everything you hide from your ISP, you show the VPN service instead. Don't trust your ISP with that information? That's fine, but why should you trust your VPN service more?
Anyway, I'll make sure to show this video to my social circle :D
Exactly right. You're simply shifting your trust away from your ISP and toward a VPN, which is often a very shady, unknown entity.
@@AllThingsSecured It depends on who you are trying to hide from. ISPs generally have ties to a country's government so they are more ready to share information with the gov. Getting information from a foreign country's VPN can be a jurisdiction nightmare (depending upon the country).
Yeah man. me too. I go crazy in the commments of every video i see VPN ads in. LTT is the one that annoys me the most though.
I gotta say, I find myself more inclined to trust the VPN company than ATnT or Verizon. At least the VPN company hasn't PROVEN itself to be willing to sell you to the highest bidder.
That is to the point. VPN is all about encryption. At the end of tunnel, you are exposed to someone else.
Brilliant video Josh , thank you very much letting everyone know about this 👍
Glad you liked it, Peter.
Thanks for finally starting your informative video after that introduction ! :)
That last point is gold. Been online since dialup and can count on less than one hand the number of security issues I've had to handle, all resolved myself in short order.
Ultimately - Nothing beats the security suite right between your ears.
The one thing you forgot about is insecure WiFi access points - airports, hotels, Airbnb ….
Recently I was feeling really nervous about going around on the internet, especially because all the VPN ads had been starting to get me feeling like my password on the internet weren’t enough but this video honestly helped a lot, although I might still get a VPN just to location spoof for the hell of it
Thank you ..Its quite clear , what to expect from VPN
Really nice video man. Respect
Lots of people use the wireless networks of others. That’s a major risk, especially on public WiFi networks. So yeah it can protect you from hackers. Saying it can’t is as stupid as saying it will.
As a pentester, I couldn't agree more. If someone uses a VPN, it usually doesn't make any difference in the way I attack them (legal contract, of course!). 90% of times it's either phishing, social engineering or crafting personalized emails with attached payloads, none of which are affected by the fact that the client uses a VPN. The only realistic scenario where it causes problems is sniffing traffic during a local MITM attack, which is pretty rare, unless you're doing something shady like a public honeypot...
You sir are the reason I don't visit any sites besides like 4 lol
Will you test my security after I finish it up. The Verizon managers said I know way more about cyber security than they do
@@anonymousandy2789 Sure! First, we'd have to discuss the details such as the cost and the scope of the pentest, and then sign a contract. In the case of a single host like a consumer router, the price varies from 800 to 1500 USD, depending on how extensive the test should be.
@@anatolydyatlov963 well in that case I'd like to build my security centric Linux distro and Android ROM and then have a cousin of mine talk to you. Taking applications for apprenticeship?
@@anatolydyatlov963 what do you do to check for suspected RAT attacks?
Thanks bro for the valuable information 😊
I use a VPN for 2 reasons and 2 reasons only: Watching shows in different countries and stopping my ISP from seeing the websites I visit.
@@Teolope Internet Service Provider (the company you pay to provide you your WiFi).
@Lewis But aren't you giving that information to your vpn provider? If so, then why do you trust the vpn provider more than your isp?
@@poshun9407 Well, my VPN providor doesnt have my address
@@REAZNx Does your vpn provider know your full name / bank details?
@@poshun9407 They do not, I pay with crypto
THANK YOU! Tech influencers need to be held accountable and I'm all for going that in a sensible and respectable manner.
Thank you, sir!
They'll hawk the wares of any company who will sponsor them (most of them that is), they have no shame.
Held accountable? How so? Their advertising of products is for companies that pay them to do so, no different from TV commercials.
@@RoCkShaDoWWaLkEr Took the words out of my mouth. Accountable, for what exactly?
Yes, YT channel operators often do paid promotion for VPNs, but if you really listen to the detail, they are not making untrue claims.
As I hear it, they are usually making fair claims but dressed up with alot of vague fluff.
As someone in this business, I appreciate your straight talk and the common sense approach - excellent. Why do we call it "common sense" since it is not very common?
Glad you like it, Bashir! 🙏
This was super straightforward. Appreciate that.
This all needed to be said and this video needs 10 million views - let's bump this ladies and gentlemen! Thank you, sir!
Thanks for the kind words.
Good video, on the bright side, the videos I saw about vpns before yours, I only saw 2 tbh, told me the same pros, keeping information from isp and location specific streaming. You have a much better delivery than them tho.
Ha! Thanks...I appreciate that :)
It's kinda funny. I install ISPs. I've never installed any equipment that keeps any information.
@@Bryan-Hensley What's even funnier, I work for an ISP, and my job is sorting information from our users that I pass on to another department so that the information can be sold
I got a vpn just to impress a hot computer science major who lived across the hall from me, she rejected me hard, but the location specific streaming has been a lifesaver during lockdowns
@@johngalt4713 I knew it
Great information. Using VPN moves my trust from my ISP and internal network to the breakout point of the VPN provider. These private VPN are useable to move the trust when you are in an internet cafe or using open hotspots, completely untrusted places to use the internet.
thank you for adding section breaks and headings to your videos. So few do this, but for these kinds of videos it's glorious and useful!
Never underestimate human stupidity. Something I love about people is everyone thinks they are an expert. Why are people so afraid to be wrong? Do people honestly think everything they say is fact? All a VPN does is simply take your connections history and visited websites and give it to another company. Thinking it will protect you is really dumb and I don't understand why anyone would ever think that? The best protection is you, not software. Good video!!
Thanks, Denki!
This was very helpful. Thank you!
This is great, but I'd argue that "better passwords" should not even be on the list. The number of * I put in my password means absolutely nothing if the site I visit is breached, which is how most passwords are obtained.
not quite true, a reliable site will not store your password only a hashed version. SO even if the site is hacked they won't know your password. Even the site owners won't know your password. ALso if you use a complex unique password for each site, then one password hacked is not going to go far. All sites should hash passwords.
thanks Dude. Very informative and easy to understand
Been saying the same thing for years - good video that explains it properly
Just found your channel, and love the contents of this video. And just became a subscriber. Thx !!
Awesome, thanks Jeff!
Ignore this guy about VPN's. Get one. He says they're not safe, but... if you select a VPN server in countries like Holland, Sweden, Spain - they have laws that protect the individual from authorities abusing their power. Court Orders are needed there to check logs and so on - because it's private information. Obviously all the other advice is fine, and pertinent, but if you value your privacy, use VPN's, set-up fake email accounts, Social Media accounts and so on - you saw what happened to those British people who got locked up for posting spicy comments on Facebook.
Truly excellent. Very clear in untying this Gordian knot. Thanks
Besides being skeptical, ads, misinformation, the most valuable asset you have is sounding sincere and honest, thanks for the info, everything makes more sense with your explanation, I used to be paranoid about having internet security suites and Norton or NOD32 and after some other folks like you I realized common sense was 1st priority for security.
Glad it was helpful! And thank you for the kind words.
Great video, especially pointing out that we ourselves are our biggest threat to security lol, makes sense, gotta know at least some of the basics.
You had less subscribers than I thought. Your videos are very high quality. Subbed !
Thanks for the sub!
Great information! Short and to the point and all true.
First time I watch you, subscribed immediately. I appreciate the good work, thanks!
Thanks for taking the time to have actual captions - makes video a lot easier to understand.
Josh (or anyone really), I believe I have asked you this before but didn't get a response: Is there anyway other than a VPN to protect oneself against DDoS attacks?
Other than that, thanks for the helpful content.
Well said sir, nice video, great sound, great flow, well done!
I am impressed mate. +1 sub here
4:44 Not just DNS, also the IPs you connect to. Encrypted DNS can be achieved for free without a VPN with DoH or DoT, but it will still be possible to monitor the IPs of the servers you connect to.
Awesome video!! 👌🏼👍🏼. Could you please make a video on how we can find out how someone is getting into our phone aka hacking 😒😤 (iPhone)
Thanks for the comment and the suggestion! I'll see what I can do, Margie.
I’m not an expert or nothing but an iPhone is supposed to be extremely secure the only way someone is “hacking” you is if they have access to your iCloud or you downloaded something you were not supposed to