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On Wed, 23 Sep 2015, Neil Winchurst wrote:
On Wed, 23 Sep 2015 16:53:22 +0100 Grant Phillips-Sewell <dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:On 23 Sep 2015 16:37, "Neil Winchurst" <barnaby@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:I seem to get more and more rubbish emails. I also read articles in the papers that tell me that it is all getting worse. So I have been looking at VPN's. I can see the idea but, as ever, the more I research the more I get confused. Is a VPN a good idea, mainly to help with personal security? It seems that some of them are for Windows only, so which are recommended for Linux? If necessary I don't mind paying. If anyone can point me in the right direction I would be very grateful, even if the advice is 'don't bother'. NeilHi Neil, I used to use an SSH tunnel as a rudimentary VPN. It was relatively easy to set up and very easy to use. I am struggling a little with why a VPN would make any difference to the amount of SPAM you receive. GrantNo, not for the spam, I know there is no answer to that, just made me think of security generally, and I came across the idea of a VPN.
All you do is push the issue further away from you. If you can't protect your own LAN, how do you know the remote LAN/PC/cloud is protected?
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