Sunday, June 18, 2017

How to build your own VPN if you’re (rightfully) wary of commercial options


Before you can fix [the] problem, you need to understand it. That means knowing what your ISP can (and cannot) detect (and modify) in your traffic. HTTPS traffic is already relatively secure—or, at least, its content is. Your ISP can't actually read the encrypted traffic that goes between you and an HTTPS website (at least, they can't unless they convince you to install a MITM certificate, like Lenovo did to unsuspecting users of its consumer laptops in 2015). However, ISPs do know that you visited that website, when you visited it, how long you stayed there, and how much data went back and forth. - Jim Salter, Ars Technica [via/web:http://streaming-tv.us]

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