I've always assumed the VPN knows everything I'm doing - I'm just trying to make sure my ISP doesn't.

@AllThingsSecured

2 жыл бұрын

Makes sense.

@McDADDyK

2 жыл бұрын

But why?

@shinhijikata3255

2 жыл бұрын

@@McDADDyK Say, you want to download a movie off of a torrent site. It's not the VPN that comes after you - it's the ISP giving out your information to the copyright holders that comes after you.

@melind82

2 жыл бұрын

@@shinhijikata3255 Even this won't last forever. Instead of going after ISPs the copyright owners will start going after VPN companies which will then lead them back to your ISP. At least where I live in the US the government has always been willing to create laws to help copyright owners go after infringers.

@McDADDyK

2 жыл бұрын

@@shinhijikata3255 So you've all been brainwashed and fallen for fearmongering by copywrite holders. If you had said you wanted to watch something that's region locked I would've understood. You might be young so might not know but VERY and I mean VERY few people have ever been chased up for illegally downloading stuff. Even then the people who did were then distributing it at a mass scale. There's a few documentaries on people who were sued millions for illegally downloading. The odds are less astronomically low. You downloading a movie or 1k of people doing it meanings nothing to these companies now that they have monthly subscriptions to everything. This isn't the 90s anymore guys.

Expecting privacy on the internet is like expecting invisibility walking down a busy street. Sad but true.

@AllThingsSecured

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed. It’s simply not possible.

@motherflerkentannhauser8152

2 жыл бұрын

I believe the idea is not to be invisible but to not stand out and look unique.

@caelestigladii

2 жыл бұрын

Venetians achieved some form of anonymity walking down a busy street some centuries back.

@MelaninMagdalene

2 жыл бұрын

If encryption is a mathematical equation, & all commercial internet encryption is limited to a certain level, I guess not

@hotaru8309

2 жыл бұрын

Yes and no. Basically many VPNs are the Marvel "snapback and sunglasses" combo of blending in. They can do better and st least shouldn't advertise as so much more than they can reasonably guarantee.

Let's be honest here. Almost everyone who uses a VPN does it because they want to get past region locked content.

@lucasterable

2 жыл бұрын

@Christopher I P those are all blacklisted and blocked. Wonder why these high profile VPNs aren't blocked as well...

@TysonJensen

2 жыл бұрын

@@lucasterable They are. It’s a game of whack-a-mole. The only VPNs that will reliably get you region locked content are employee-only VPNs run by certain tech companies (aka, Google / Amazon / Apple) because the streaming service providers might know that you are using a Google-owned IP but dare not block it no matter how much region-lock bypassing tech company employees might be doing.

@TriWaZe

2 жыл бұрын

I mean Disney+ for me won't even load if Im using a VPN. They could easily block that shit if they wanted to. Takes 2 seconds to see if you are running a VPN. Unless you want to start spoofing shit. Then everybody will be forced to use residential proxies.

@TriWaZe

2 жыл бұрын

@@szymex8341 I rather should say it basically takes 2 seconds. Unless you are using a private VPN it all gets detected pretty quicky.

@sdewey4152

2 жыл бұрын

Usually this breaches ToS of the content you're trying to view, which in a lot of cases is used as a selling point...I'm waiting for the big services to murder the VPN companies.

Easy: Just quit the Internet and let's live with squirrel friends.

@AllThingsSecured

2 жыл бұрын

That ought to do it :)

@psycronizer

2 жыл бұрын

@@AllThingsSecured worked for me.

@brendonjeffers8986

2 жыл бұрын

Plot twist: Squirrels run the deep web

@sirlost94

2 жыл бұрын

You mean quit porn?

@tharunkumar9451

2 жыл бұрын

Or use dvpn like sentinel lite

Man, im not tech savvy in the slightest, but the way you present the infomation is amazing. Understood something i thought was extremly difficult to fathom. Thank's for the time & effort you put in to your content. Peace.

@AllThingsSecured

2 жыл бұрын

This is exactly the kind of comment I LOVE to see. Thanks so much!

I've never thought that a Vpn provides any privacy or anonymity in any real sense. It's is only a way to access servers from the vpn in different global locations. Honestly I think the vpn craze is just another version of "let's get peoples money on vague promises and misunderstood tech."

@JosephArata

2 жыл бұрын

Data encryption isn't misunderstood tech. This dumbass has links to two of the worst offenders for data breach VPNs in his vid description. Banking institutions that hold billions of dollars in client money don't use un-encrypted internet traffic to do business, why should you let your ISP data mine all your internet traffic? VPNs with no data logs is just that, the server is installed on RAM disk, and has no backup, if the server gets seized there is 0 chance of data breach, because the entire OS is contained on RAM, all data pertaining to the encrypted traffic going in/out of the server is gone.

@tracemyers1275

2 жыл бұрын

@@JosephArata All VPN's are garbage, end of story. You understand what makes the vpn strong is also what makes it weak. I can force you to have micro stutters by flooding your router and it posts your real IP before it reports the VPN address as you reconnect to the internet. You won't even lose connection to your video game, and i'll have every thing i need to use your PC

@hoangnguyenvuhuy5535

2 жыл бұрын

@@tracemyers1275 no you can't lol.

@Insert.namehere

2 жыл бұрын

Kinda getting that vibe to, all of it is sort of getting exhausting

@RobKMusic

2 жыл бұрын

Are VPNs gluten-free?

I usually leave my VPN in an area I can't speak the language. It makes the ads I see less effective if I can't understand them

@AllThingsSecured

2 жыл бұрын

Haha! 😂

First impression of this channel . I like your voice. You're not yelling , desperately trying to convince the viewer , " That I got answers to your problem."

"Independent" audits are like "independent" fact-checkers. Someone paying them to do so, and if the company don't get "expected" results then, that was your last "independent" job.

@AllThingsSecured

2 жыл бұрын

Great way to say it.

@somebodysomeone23

2 жыл бұрын

Yes and no. If there is no international certification or regulator requiring said independent audits in order to identify whether you meet certain criteria or not - there is no need to conduct such audits. And you would not, as a vpn company, as you don’t need to in order to conduct business.

@Ocato92

2 жыл бұрын

I work in Food Industry, and it doesn't look like that. First: no matter how often they ensure you otherwise, the auditors HAVE TO FIND A NON-CONFORMITY. THey are going to look, until they find something is not right. Second: you are not their employer. The auditing company is, and it cares more about image of trustworthiness, than about one customer. If you have only minor non-conformities, you gonna pass, but you truly don't meet the criteria. They won't hesitate to not certifiy you. But, indeed, there is a big problem with knowing the exact date of audit. Unannounced audits do exist, in case of which you just get 4 - 6 month window, when the Auditors are giong to appear, but you can be sure, that if the company went for unannounced audits, they are going to put this information everywhere.

@eng3d

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ocato92 i also worked in the food industry and a: the auditor always find mistakes and b: money solves everything. In our case, we have rats, lots of rats and the british brc was a just toss some money

@TysonJensen

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ocato92 uhhhh… just ‘cause it doesn’t look like that in your one industry doesn’t mean that it doesn’t look like that. In food safety, the government pays the auditors and what the government wants them to find is safety violations, so they do. So actually, it literally does look like that. It’s just who is paying for the audit. If a VPN is paying for the audit, you’d better believe the auditing company won’t find any violations. If the government is auditing restaurants, you’d better believe they’ll find violations. At least in the government case the restaurants can lobby to have the auditors back off a bit. Or go to the public so that the voters tell the government to tell the auditors to back off a bit. The TL;DR is unless the government is paying for the audit, there’s no way to have a meaningful conversation about audit accuracy, they won’t be accurate, they will be hopelessly corrupt. Even if the government does pay for it, the temptation to corruption is very high.

Man can we go back to when a VPN was used to access your LAN from the internet without exposing your entire local network infrastructure to the entire internet? Now when I tell people I have a VPN they think I'm talking about something entirely different...

@masskiller9206

2 жыл бұрын

That said, I appreciate your well thought out and straight to the point videos, and these comments are for the algorithm. Keep it up!

@AllThingsSecured

2 жыл бұрын

That’s a great point! It’s so fascinating how the generally understood meaning of the term “VPN” has evolved over the past decade. Crazy.

@asdf51501

2 жыл бұрын

Most people wouldn't understand the difference between "I run a vpn server so family members can access my network" and "I use a vpn to download illegal movies".

@jwenting

2 жыл бұрын

@@AllThingsSecured that's the power of marketing for you. VPN companies, presented with a reduction in interest of their products as regional restrictions became less and less of a thing, started thinking of reinventing themselves and came up with the idea of scamming the uneducated masses into believing they were going to "protect your privacy" and "protect you from phishing scams". Never mind that you accessing facebook and twitter through a VPN isn't going to prevent that personal information you post there for all the world to see from being seen by all the world. Or that all those tracking cookies will not end up in your browser and be able to identify you even if your ip address changes. If you read the fine print they don't promise that, they only promise in writing the only thing they can promise and that's that they swap your actual ip address for another one...

@channelofstuff6662

2 жыл бұрын

still the same thing now you letting the server from someone you don't know have access to your lan with all the other people on that server.

This video's title should be 'The reality of VPN'. Good job.

@AllThingsSecured

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much.

@amit4994

2 жыл бұрын

@@AllThingsSecured I like your style of explaining.

@justaguyonyoutube

2 жыл бұрын

lmao no, it should be "how to misinform novice computer users"

A very well put together argument that doesn't just boil down to "it's useless to use," or something like that. A VPN service _can_ have its uses, but not in the way all the random sponsored KZreadrs are claiming it to be.

@AllThingsSecured

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind words.

Thank you Josh for being a superman , helping a senior citizen know what to do and not do, what to watch for. Thank you.

@AllThingsSecured

2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

This video earned my sub. I'm glad you explained VPN stuff in a way that I can better understand things about it.

I was looking for a video on this topic. Found yours and it was clear, concise and easy to understand. Thanks! And, good job! You now have a new subscriber.

@AllThingsSecured

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Great video and I really like your channel. Thank you cutting through the bs that we are being fed with all the time.

The only true "No Log" VPN is the one you built and setup yourself and specify it to do so. Can be easily done with something as small as any single-board computer, like a Raspberry Pi or any un-used desktop laying around. Only reason to use a VPN service provider is if you live in a very restrictive country like C H I N A, or simply want to be able to view geo-locked content. Also, any VPN, one that you built and setup or a service provider you use will not magically make you anonymous especially if you don't change anything with your browsing habits and use one browser for everything you do related to the internet. It's merely a layer that needs to be used with several other layers for it to be any effective at all.

@AllThingsSecured

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly. One layer among many.

@anguangyan

2 жыл бұрын

VPN’s are now less common in China now. The Great fire wall had developed a pattern for detecting VPN, and can easily ban it.

@Megalomaniakaal

2 жыл бұрын

Alas, even building one yourself won't help you. You need a network of random ones all across the globe(preferably) or at least across your state to have any semblance of 'anonymity'. Having just one would simply be a proxy/gateway and the ISP would still be able to easily track it.

@WarningStrangerDanger

2 жыл бұрын

VPNs can let you torrent without annoying emails and letters from the ISP.

@qharis-lm902

2 жыл бұрын

Nobody uses VPN for this purpose in China, it's painfully slow and detected then blocked very fast. More stealth and efficient protocols are used, such as shadowsocks and vmess.

The cut away scene was a nice touch

@AllThingsSecured

2 жыл бұрын

Ha! Thanks 😊

Fantastic job being clear and concise. I look forward to seeing your other content. Well done!

I watched your content once and instantly got hooked on it, because of your easy to understand delivery and good pace. Nice! Keep up the good work mate :)

@AllThingsSecured

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome, thank you!

I have a bunch of people I need to send this video to. I've tried explaining this to them so many times. They're adamant that they need a VPN service to protect their privacy from all the tracking companies out there and prevent financial information from being stolen. One was absolutely convinced she needed a VPN to prevent credit card and bank account data from being stolen. Trying to explain that the data for her compromised credit card was stolen from a vendor with a data breach and NOT her internet connection was like bashing my head against the wall.

@cgsec2275

2 жыл бұрын

A VPN is probably more likely to expose your financial data to criminals than your ISP anyway.

@judithnicholais1492

Жыл бұрын

@@cgsec2275 HOW SO?

@worldisfilledb

Жыл бұрын

@@judithnicholais1492 it’s not, vpns work fine and I bet most people liking this video also use one

That kills me when people use google and are logged into it. Yet use a VPN. As if companies don't realize who you are already and search history lol

@AllThingsSecured

2 жыл бұрын

But it’s a common misconception!!

@NicCrimson

2 жыл бұрын

I use a VPN for my ISP

@markcarroll5836

2 жыл бұрын

A vpn is so some schmuck at the next table in your coffee shop can’t see what you are doing.

@SwiggityPeanut

2 жыл бұрын

I mean, in reality if someone is seeking to use a vpn for legit total privacy/secrecy, its not overly difficult to create a completely new online persona, using a throwaway phone in someone elses name, a burner email, etc. the issue then comes down to said persons self awareness and discipline to behave differently while under that persona. granted, this would take knowledge of how to accomplish this etc. but a vpn can be utilized for obfuscation. Also, at the end of this video there was an expressvpn ad 😂

@SergeantExtreme

2 жыл бұрын

At the same time, just because I'm logged into Google doesn't mean Google knows who I am. My First Name is Captain, and my last name is Obvious. I live at 123 Sesame Street in New York. Behind a VPN, I still have a degree of anonymity. Using a VPN correctly can allow you to achieve a degree of anonymity that you otherwise wouldn't have without one. You're forgetting this is a one-sided argument, and all the information presented in this video is to bolter that one side.

I very much appreciate your no-nonsense approach to this topic. You hit all the right points and you do it in a way that adds the correct amount of emphasis on what is important and what someone should be using a VPN for. Generally speaking, anyone should be able to be on the internet with any device and never have to use or consider a VPN but this world is far from perfect and despite people with nefarious intent by and large the worst users of internet traffic and it's data are companies who wish to profit from that data. Good video. I liked and subscribed. Thank you for your time and effort.

Thank You 🙏✌️ Always nice to find honest mature content on this thing.

@AllThingsSecured

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Chris.

Awesome structure of the information yet again. Good job and thank you

@AllThingsSecured

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, David!

I know but it helps with netflix and discovery plus, as Im Canadian and we dont have tons of content on streaming services

@Zaptosis

2 жыл бұрын

It's called The Pirates Bay, everything you could ever want for free! Pick the cheapest VPN you can find & download with immunity! Heck even FREE vpn's like hotspot shield are sufficient for torrenting. Never pay for content again.

Glad I found this video you earned a new subscriber. Thanks for telling the truth

Fair reporting and you do clear up some of my biggest questions for me, thanks

@AllThingsSecured

2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure, Paul. Thanks!

Plus, it's foolish to think, even without the VPN disclosing logs, that you're anonymous. Sure, your IP can't be traced directly back to you, but there are many other ways companies track your online behavior. Unless you're only browsing a single site at a time, and clearing cookies before you open a new site, your cookies are betraying you. And that's just to start.

Wow finally! Someone actually made a video about false advertising VPNs. I was cringing the whole time when some youtubers say something like "are you sick of your ISP knowing all about your network traffic?". Yeah... I'm sick of it so I need to make a 3rd party VPN know all about my traffic 🙃

@AllThingsSecured

2 жыл бұрын

😂😆

@supernova82

Жыл бұрын

A good VPN doesn't store your browsing information. The privacy policy that this KZreadr read also didn't mention it. Of course, they have to keep your session information and app diagnostic data but does it really matter if they do?

Great...Great Honest Info!!! Thank You!

@AllThingsSecured

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful, Gene!

Very informative video - rare to find such stuff in KZread these days. Appreciate your work!

@AllThingsSecured

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Great style and plain clear explanations. Congrats.

@AllThingsSecured

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much, Pedro!

Apparently authorities investigating a murder of a ambassador broke through TOR and traced their suspect to a expressvpn server. The authorities seized the server, but it did them no good because there were no logs.

@AllThingsSecured

2 жыл бұрын

Yup, that’s true, and ExpressVPN is very proud of this. I’m not saying that every VPN logs data that can be used against you, I’m simply pointing out that until those FBI requests come through, you’ll never know for sure. You’re putting all your trust in a centralized entity.

@motherflerkentannhauser8152

2 жыл бұрын

Express and PIA both have had real cases and encounters with court orders or authorities where they have proven to not log or to keep whatever they log about you secure. These are the only two I know. It does not imply others do not live up to what they promise in their privacy policies, it's simply inconclusive without testing.

@mikehunt7888

2 жыл бұрын

​@@AllThingsSecured I'm sure they are proud, but I've never seen a expressvpn commercial or sales pitch involving the investigation. My guess is that they are afraid of making a murderer the face of their company and/or claims of milking someones death to sell subscriptions.

You are right, many people don't know these things at all. I also use VPN service for geo reason, and the route is legal in my country. When I share my VPN service with my good friends, I will also told them the things in your video.

Thank you very much for the information it was most enlightening.

I'd like to hear your thoughts on Proton VPN.

@ThatGuy56326

2 жыл бұрын

LOL

@laustinspeiss

2 жыл бұрын

* Any ‘public’ VPN is open to the same forms of abuse and intrusion. Only if you host *both* ends of the VPN (e.g. at a foreign relative’s house) can it be secure - until it leaves their property and goes onto ‘their’ public internet.

Excellent video. I've been contacted by VPN Sponsor multiple times... However, I can never promote or review VPNs knowing the truth... My biggest gripe is the advertising of "hide your IP or identity" promo. Other youtubers advertise this as if it's 100% true that no logs are recorded; which is a bit irresponsible. Anyway, great job on making this video.

@AllThingsSecured

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for watching and commenting! It’s a fine line we have to walk when it comes to VPNs, that’s for sure.

@Cobuman

2 жыл бұрын

@@AllThingsSecured Sure thing. Good content should always be praised. 👍😁

Wow...here is the man who can memorize the whole The New Testament... 🙏 love to bump into you in this channel... Blessing pastor Josh😍😍👍👍👍

@pricklypear7497

2 жыл бұрын

Huh?

@akungintip1657

2 жыл бұрын

Yesp..he is the guy😍👍👍

I randomly came across this video, watched exactly 50 seconds of it. Immediately liked and subscribed.

@AllThingsSecured

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

I think another question to ask is “What are you doing with the data you’re ‘not’ collecting?”

Be real, anyone who cares so much about "privacy" wouldnt be on the internet or a computer to start with, they'd be living in a hole in the ground in the middle of the woods drinking rainwater or rivers, eating plants and lost hikers

@AllThingsSecured

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting theory. I think there’s definitely a line you can easily cross into paranoia, but it’s also responsible to be aware of what happens to your data.

@OlEgSaS32

2 жыл бұрын

@@AllThingsSecured Of course, no argument on that front

@1800imawake

2 жыл бұрын

Mmmmm lost hikers

@atwajesper9434

2 жыл бұрын

I don't agree but it reminds of a line in a CIA movie where a retired agent tells the other guys that this 'Micro Chip' thing or the 'secret code' are usually not saved on anything digital but on paper or something that can be destroyed without traceable evidence because the digital world will always leve a footprint.

THANK YOU for posting this. I always remind people using VPNs for "Privacy": all your data is being funneled through a single point. There is absolutely nothing less secure than a bottleneck.

@cgsec2275

2 жыл бұрын

People seem to think a VPN is some fancy secure protocol. All it does is route your data through another company instead of your ISP with the same protocols, it is not more secure, you are just trusting a smaller more unknown company instead, it makes no sense from a security perspective. In fact the VPN probably has even worse security.

WTH... why on earth wasn't I subscribed to this channel.. wonderful content bro! Cheers.

@AllThingsSecured

Жыл бұрын

Thanks 🙏

Sir I know your video's are not getting the views they deserve. But please please 🙏 don't stop making them !! I love your style of explanation and I am sure many will too in future. So, for now don't worry about the views, please continue making videos informative videos like this 👍 Love from India ❤️

@AllThingsSecured

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much, Hitesh! I'm not concerned about views, thankfully. But it definitely helps if you like and share the video 😝

@omarij

2 жыл бұрын

Why are you calling him sir?

I will routinely turn on network logging/tracing. I don’t look for data packets, but routing information as my job involves debugging connectivity issues. I also use VPN to avoid geolocation censorship.

Great video and information. Thank you

KEEP THE FACTS COMING

As long as it gets me around strict nat settings implemented by Verizon, I don't care. Being in a semi and able to play Xbox games with friends and have in-game chat is worth the $$.

@Thranotheoneandonly

2 жыл бұрын

also vpn lets you download torrents still, had issues with spectrum, bought a vpn and can dl what i like

@stonekeepx3794

2 жыл бұрын

@@Thranotheoneandonly i confirmed this with that service but also add AT&T to it. Had 2 strikes from them then with a VPN no more issues. Plus getting around region locked content is always a benefit.

Thats why you dont use a VPN for privacy reasons, but to be more safe from hackers and intruders to your computer (especially when you are working)

@s.muller8688

2 жыл бұрын

"Thats why you dont use a VPN for privacy reasons" Really? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@LC-hd5dc

Жыл бұрын

ah yes "safe from hackers" because that phrase means something useful right?

Amazing explanation! I have a question: What do you think of Ram-only servers like Surfshark VPN ?

Great video. Concise and to the point. #Subbed

This is why they always push the "netflix"angle, the rest is bunk.

@user-vj9hb3gy6d

2 жыл бұрын

Netflix nowadays detects VPNs 😂

@LC-hd5dc

Жыл бұрын

@@user-vj9hb3gy6d not in my experience

Damn, that's a sobering realization. I guess I needed to hear that 😅

@AllThingsSecured

2 жыл бұрын

Haha 😆

Very well put! I also noticed that VPNs aren't even effective fooling our location to google, for example. I did a search that has items that were blocked in Europe (per my request), but not outside of Europe, and even though I used a VPN and was browsing using "incognito mode" the searches would still not show me the results and they would also show the notice, as if I were physically where I am and not where my VPN was set to make look like I was. Glad that at least for now VPNs work for services like Netflix (it's really annoying they have much less content outside of the United States, especially new, which is usually what we pay streaming services for, after all, usually...).

@AllThingsSecured

2 жыл бұрын

Yea, I think that sometimes our GPS location gives us away.

@TheSimArchitect

2 жыл бұрын

@@AllThingsSecured Well, my PC doesn't have a GPS, in theory. Of course they can use my IP to locate me (even I can locate myself with my IP, that's how things are right now, and I have ipv6 turned off all the way by my ISP, per request). It's their browser plus they have other methods. I believe using a browser that's designed for it might help, or a virtual machine with VPN all the time on, so it doesn't know it's somewhere else 😉 But for the big tech, where there's a will, there's a way. They know more about us than our very own selves. I don't usually mind, though, but when I want to do things like browsing the internet if I were in another country for testing or shopping purposes, sometimes I am unable to spoof myself properly.

I didn't quite look at it this way before. Very interesting.

The only thing I use my VPN for is to watch Netflix anyways lol

@Muhammad_Nuruddin

2 жыл бұрын

I use it to watch shows or movies not available in my country.

@Archonsx

2 жыл бұрын

just pirate lol, netflix is trash, definitely not worth the subscription

@wesss9353

2 жыл бұрын

@John Smith cuties... Yeah it is cp

@samuelekatompessy

2 жыл бұрын

i use it for access the reddit, because my government think reddit is a "full" porn site

@lokemmslokemms4294

2 жыл бұрын

I hope VPN provider would interested with my GAY PORN. joking.

Finally, someone talking something accurate about it.

@AllThingsSecured

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks

well explained - thank u for sharing!

@AllThingsSecured

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for commenting!

Insightful video, thanks!

@AllThingsSecured

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it, Marco!

Thanks for taking the time to explain this in a clear and concise manner. My anti-virus provider is hopping on the bandwagon of pushing VPN as another security measure. However, after doing some research, I realized that I don’t need it and their added service is not one of the better providers if I should need this service. You confirmed what I always understood the function of VPN’s which you have explained very well in your other videos. I would recommend to everyone to look at your other videos which covers all the essential aspects of VPN’s and why one is necessary and when they are not.

@AllThingsSecured

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Darrin!

‘We never log internet usage/IP’ is what’s most important I think. The fact that they store your payment and use connection details seems like pretty useless information to anyone subpoena/tracking you. Sure they might then know your computer was online, but wouldn’t have info on where and what it was connected to. It’s like you are saying your blinds don’t offer privacy because you can see still the lights are on.

@mikkj1

2 жыл бұрын

If you're a target, they can easily tell what server you've connected to without having to subpoena a VPN. When you hear about this nowadays, it's more of a CYA thing - "doing their due diligence" rather than actually expecting to find anything useful.

@markoshun

2 жыл бұрын

@@mikkj1 “Easily see which server you’re connected to”, as in which vpn server you are routed through? My understanding is that’s as far as they could go. What is CYA?

@mikkj1

2 жыл бұрын

@@markoshun CYA = cover your a** In other words doing stuff just so that no one can claim that you didn't do enough. And, you're correct, they can only tell what server you've connected to. If they get the data from a "no log" VPN, that's all they'll get as well, since they don't log where you went.

@jwenting

2 жыл бұрын

oh, they log your ip all over the place. They just don't log it in direct relation with the data you send over their network. What they do is they log the relation between your ip and the ip they assign you. And then log the incoming data (from and to you) to your ip and the outgoing data (from and to that new ip address) to that ip address. It's just one simple SQL query away from linking everything together, but on paper they don't log the actual network traffic.

@mikkj1

2 жыл бұрын

@@jwenting I don't know of any of the actual "no log" VPN's that log your outgoing destination. All they log is for server usage, traffic balancing, etc. If they're logging what server you're connecting to, then they're not even secure, let alone "no log".

I love listening to you talk. You’re very informative and share your knowledge in a clear, easy to understand way on complex content. 🤔 Thanks dude! Do you ever speak Mandarin in your video’s? For fun or to show off your skills? hee hee 😊

@AllThingsSecured

2 жыл бұрын

Ha! No, there’s never been a need. Although at this point I’m probably getting a bit rusty since I’m no longer living in China.

Saw this - liked this - subscribed.

@AllThingsSecured

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Shai.

This channel is sick. The edit, the explanation, im subbing

@walter2065

2 жыл бұрын

This channel is best i ever seen ..and if you can do better then do it

@WarningStrangerDanger

2 жыл бұрын

Immediately did the same

@fannyalbi9040

2 жыл бұрын

@@walter2065 i thought he is being sarcastic

@walter2065

2 жыл бұрын

@@fannyalbi9040 i have no idea . it didnt look like that

@RafiGish

2 жыл бұрын

@@walter2065 Clickbait vid, generalizing and aiming casuals.

Guess I'll have to trust my government's incompetence so that my piracy streak may continue.

Thanks for another great video. Loved your inclusion of Jayden (spelling?). I would love to see your take on Apple’s new iCloud plus feature (encrypted internet access), and how that compares to traditional VPN services. If possible both a technical comparison (how it works) and a privacy comparison (which solution provides the best protection).

@AllThingsSecured

2 жыл бұрын

Excellent suggestions! I'm definitely keen to do exactly what you're proposing here. Thanks.

@pkrook71

2 жыл бұрын

@@AllThingsSecured Fantastic, I look forward to that!

Very good clarification, thanks for that

Thanks again for a great video. My question is did he make his bed and if so how did you train him? Still working on my 13 year old to do that lol. Even with the random time checks

@AllThingsSecured

2 жыл бұрын

Haha! 😂 😆

Because 99.9% of humans are like Paris Hilton ... lol

@PurposeBuiltSasha

2 жыл бұрын

Most people are probably saying right now who is Paris Hilton because he ain’t done nothing in years. I mean for the period of time she was in the public guy it was cringe worthy but she was a kid young and wild. Anyway 100% of humans I like Paris Hilton for time.

@WeAreTheDraiken

2 жыл бұрын

@@PurposeBuiltSasha your autocorrect must really be annoying.

@TwistZero

2 жыл бұрын

What? The comment and the reply both make no sense.

Facts, I always roll my eyes when I see those VPN ads on youtube vids

@AllThingsSecured

2 жыл бұрын

Yea, I know.

Much appreciated. And you have a nice voice

@AllThingsSecured

2 жыл бұрын

Ha! Thanks, Brian.

Yeah, I only use VPN to get pass region locked contents. To expect anything beyond that is kinda naïve.

Very well stated. Still, if a VPN (let's use NordVPN for simplicity) doesn't log anything except timestamps for when you're connected to the service-which are then deleted soon after disconnecting-how is this not effectively a cloak of anonymity? Of course, this trusts and assumes that their statements regarding logging is completely true, and that no admins secretly log other info. Still, I trust a VPN that I get to choose more than an ISP (of which choice is very little) that may be required whether by law or by policy to log certain things.

@AllThingsSecured

2 жыл бұрын

The point is that if they’re logging your connection - even for 15 minutes - it’s not ZERO LOGS. And you have to trust that they’re going to do what they say they’re going to do with your data.

@Klffsj

2 жыл бұрын

@@AllThingsSecured You're right. It's not Zero Logs, and that really is false advertising. There's a lot of people that say that commercial VPN's are pretty useless though, at least from a privacy standpoint. I'm thinking that surely a VPN with few to no logs would be better than without it, but I'm still trying to formulate my final opinions.

This wasn't completely new news to me, but I think this is a great video for regular folks.

I do gardening work to finance my college fees and most of what we do is make company grounds (parking lots, flower beds etc) look nice for independent audits. Now, I know what the place looks like 364 days of the year, as I have seen the "before picture", so I can say with certainty that audits don't mean anything. Cleaning up once for a good look is cheaper than maintaining it.

im waiting for i cloud plus with Apple Private Relay

@lilsabin

2 жыл бұрын

loooooool, Icloud plus pro

@wunwegwundarwun8580

2 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

My old rule sayz "If it's too good, it's on 99% horsecrap!"

Great video thanks mate

Thanks! I kinda already figured VPNs were a little FOS. Let me ask you this. So if it's not a privacy tool, do you personally just use it to get around content blocking?

vpns are the honey pot for countries monitoring traffic, they are the most information rich sources among those feeling it increases safety/anonymity. THEE HONEY POT!

@RyoKasai25

2 жыл бұрын

If you try hard to hide your activity, you'll just make yourself a more interesting target to the people you want to hide from. It's like going out in the street with a gas mask in order to not being identified. Sure, people won't see your face, but the authorities will be suspicious and want to know what's up.

@NemorisInferioris

2 жыл бұрын

@Virus sploit Yeah but having a browser like Tor raises suspicion.

@humansvd3269

2 жыл бұрын

@Virus sploit Agencies don't care about your rights because there's no consequence of violating it.

@auteurfiddler8706

2 жыл бұрын

@Virus sploit It is not getting arrested, it is getting sued for statutory damages that ruins your life.

@HenriqueRJchiki

2 жыл бұрын

@Virus sploit No there are not, are you stupid? We're talking totalitarian countries like N. Korea and other dictatorships in Africa, SEA and Venezuela. They need to use Tor and triple their protection else they literally get sent to jail and executed for reporting their countries tyranny.

I stick with Nord. I know it isn’t possible to be totally anonymous online, I just want to be walled off from creeps & thieves when on networks that aren’t mine or don’t know what their settings or who else is on them are. Plus some public WiFi networks block entertainment streaming services and the VPN gets around that.

@AllThingsSecured

2 жыл бұрын

Yea, untrusted networks are good to protect against.

it's all well and good that you should tread carefully when you are thinking of using a vpn but it would have been nice to have seen an alternative to a vpn or some way to be completely anonymous that would be a cool video in the future. All the same great vid thanks 👍

Thnks for the update ,allso big thnks for the advertising industry for doing a great job .

I use vpn to legally purchase books from Google books because apparently some parts of the world shouldn't read, according to google, of course.

@AllThingsSecured

2 жыл бұрын

Licensing agreements are the worst.

When Hiding from a enemy, the best place to hide, is right by their base.

@Insert.namehere

2 жыл бұрын

Eh

@meggi8048

2 жыл бұрын

you mean lets rent a VPN provided by NSA directly?

@Biskawow

2 жыл бұрын

He is talking about proxy hatchery build. Sneaky zergs...

I was refused access to an American news site because I am in Britain. I tried again using a VPN with a New Jersey address. They refused me access again saying 'you're using a VPN, you're not in New Jersey, you're in Britain'.

@glasslinger

2 жыл бұрын

DAmn! And me here in the USA watches British news because all the news here is agenda driven fake crap! You all have much more accurate news than we do here in the USA! Sky News in Australia is the clear winner for news accuracy though!

@MeldinX2

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah sometimes using a VPN does not work. There are many sites that refuses to work if you switch over to a VPN. And if you turn it off then it works again. Which kinda defeats the point in paying for it.

Another excellent video!!

Can we at least agree that we're not looking for true "no-log" or absolute anonymity, but a good commercial VPN, not used by itself but also combined with other privacy practices such as using privacy-focused browsers/search engines, tracker/cookie/script blocking extensions, manually opting out of the data collection of services, etc. does provide increased anonymity&privacy by decompartmentalizing and obfuscating than not having any protection at all?

@AllThingsSecured

2 жыл бұрын

Yes. But can you also agree that the term “no log” is terribly misleading?

@DanishTroll87

2 жыл бұрын

@@AllThingsSecured not really misleading. More like you are playing on semantics for views.

@LC-hd5dc

Жыл бұрын

@@DanishTroll87 there's no semantics behind "no log". but i guess you're a troll given your name

@DanishTroll87

Жыл бұрын

@@LC-hd5dc i was talking about the name of the video

"I'll mention some vpns in the description below".....and he just mentions the same 2 vpns he was shilling in the video. Nothing more than a thinly veiled marketing video for his sponsors.

@kickassamd

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly... what stupid shit is this. Tired of seeing NordVPN and the likes all over youtube, always stay away from the companies that big advertise...

@Zaptosis

2 жыл бұрын

@@kickassamd I advertise NordVPN cause it's the most profitable to advertise & their privacy standards aren't actually that bad. But I think the best VPN is WeVPN but it's just not as mainstream. Personally thats what I use, HOWEVER I only use it for downloading free stuff & pretty much ANY VPN will work with that & not give my data to copyright holders. Realistically we don't need the privacy we think we do, but more privacy is *always* better!

@kickassamd

2 жыл бұрын

@@Zaptosis you advertise them the same reason every other KZreadr does. $$$$$$$$$$$$$. I’ll Stick to services that don’t shell out money in dump trucks to youtubers.

Part of that logged stuff is the VPN company's website rather than the actual VPN service itself, ie IP address and cookies. It is possible to switch logging off at the VPN server level or just bin it everyday as they get shed loads of this stuff if you imagine how many connections they get.

Express VPN was the advertisement played for me before the video... Nice!

@AllThingsSecured

2 жыл бұрын

Of course… 🤣

I only have a VPN for torrenting and for that at least it works. I don’t expect to have privacy online so I sell my info for money. I happily take it.

@AllThingsSecured

2 жыл бұрын

As long as you know what you're getting in to, go for it!

Lol people are silly to think they’re hidden. Same goes for phones they didn’t design these phones for our leisure they were designed to keep an eye on us.

@AllThingsSecured

2 жыл бұрын

Burner phones for the win!

Simple and well explained.

How the hell I didn't find this channel earlier? Good stuff!

@AllThingsSecured

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Zoltan!

Finally! Everytime there is a sponsor for VPN in (insert youtuber) videos I can't help but cringe a bit.

VPN-service in Switzerland is pretty much the best. They have the strictest privacy laws.

@Revolutionized

2 жыл бұрын

Noop, that is not right at all. Switzerland will cooperate even better with official demands come from country authorities like U.S.A. It all depends on who is asking for info and why.

@ghlscitel6714

2 жыл бұрын

@@Revolutionized Better than which country? I do not know any.

@Revolutionized

2 жыл бұрын

@@ghlscitel6714 Better than all other European countries U.S. call them friend, my friend. Don't argue this because I say things based on facts.

@ghlscitel6714

2 жыл бұрын

@@Revolutionized I don't understand what you write. Which country is better for privacy than Switzerland and reports less likely to outside powers?

@Revolutionized

2 жыл бұрын

@@ghlscitel6714 You are bothering yourself too much. When it comes to security, there is not much a difference between countries, specially those who have common internets. I didn't mean to put Switzerland down but just commenting on a fact. There are national agreements between counties for security and data transformation. Nothing would override these cooperation when there is a need. Switzerland plays exactly the same rule as any other country would do if not even better. That's all.

(5:25) It’s like when I worked for a Meat Market. We got 4 hour advanced notice before any health inspector was coming so that’s when we made things look good.

@AllThingsSecured

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly!!

@SB-qm5wg

2 жыл бұрын

It's the same in IT. We're aware when the audit is coming. I've never once seen a pop quiz.