Re: OT: *FREE* VPN! Why?

2015-08-06 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Thu, 6 Aug 2015, Mike Castle wrote: One handed Dvorak keyboard mappings. Thank you for handling that query Mike. Didn't wanna go near it meeself. -- Bob Bernstein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas..

Re: OT: *FREE* VPN! Why?

2015-08-06 Thread Jape Person
On 08/06/2015 02:28 PM, Mike Castle wrote: On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 9:36 AM, Jape Person wrote: Brings up another point. I've always wondered how the sticky fingers crowd could manage all the key-presses necessary for arranging proper security. One handed Dvorak keyboard mappings. mrc Bwa-h

Re: OT: *FREE* VPN! Why?

2015-08-06 Thread Mike Castle
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 9:36 AM, Jape Person wrote: > Brings up another point. I've always wondered how the sticky fingers crowd > could manage all the key-presses necessary for arranging proper security. One handed Dvorak keyboard mappings. mrc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...

Re: OT: *FREE* VPN! Why?

2015-08-06 Thread John Hasler
Cindy-Sue Causey writes: > I may have misunderstood wherever I read it, but another thing I'm > grasping vpn's about is for people to access the FREE SPEECH web from > within countries that do things like jail and shoot their > journalists for writing the TRUTH about Life. That's limited,

Re: OT: *FREE* VPN! Why?

2015-08-06 Thread Jape Person
On 08/06/2015 11:22 AM, Bob Bernstein wrote: On Thu, 6 Aug 2015, Jape Person wrote: I could jump through all the hoops I wanted to, but using my ISP-provided e-mail account (even with encrypted contents and directed through a VPN) for communications with people at risk would be laughable. How

Re: OT: *FREE* VPN! Why?

2015-08-06 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Thu, 6 Aug 2015, Jape Person wrote: I could jump through all the hoops I wanted to, but using my ISP-provided e-mail account (even with encrypted contents and directed through a VPN) for communications with people at risk would be laughable. How much of that particular POV, expressed in t

Re: OT: *FREE* VPN! Why?

2015-08-06 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 8/6/15, John Hasler wrote: > > It's about accessing material that is geographically restricted for > copyright reasons. For example, the BBC might purchase the right to > distribute a work only in the UK and have agreed to block attempts to > download it to IPs that geolocate outside the UK.

Re: OT: *FREE* VPN! Why?

2015-08-06 Thread Jape Person
On 08/06/2015 09:45 AM, Bob Bernstein wrote: I became curious about the recent vpn thread here, and went browsing around the 'net. I was staggered (well, not really, that's just an expression, right?) to see the huge number of ventures offering free vpn. I know what vpn is, and what it does, and

Re: OT: *FREE* VPN! Why?

2015-08-06 Thread John Hasler
Bob Bernstein wrote: > It can't be all those day traders wanting to use the > hotel > wifi to make their millions safely. So, here goes (send all the kids > out > of the room); is this all a porn thing? It's about accessing material that is geographically restricted for copyright reasons. For

Re: OT: *FREE* VPN! Why?

2015-08-06 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Thu, 2015-08-06 at 09:45 -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: > It can't be all those day traders wanting to use the > hotel > wifi to make their millions safely. So, here goes (send all the kids > out > of the room); is this all a porn thing? If you are on public WiFi, why wouldn't you use a VPN to

Re: OT: *FREE* VPN! Why?

2015-08-06 Thread Some Body
On 06/08/2015 15:45, Bob Bernstein wrote: I became curious about the recent vpn thread here, and went browsing around the 'net. I was staggered (well, not really, that's just an expression, right?) to see the huge number of ventures offering free vpn. A lot of people use VPN to access content t

Re: OT: *FREE* VPN! Why?

2015-08-06 Thread Gary Dale
pptp was an early M$ attempt at vpn. Not recommended. A popular use for vpn these days, at least in Canada, is to get access to U.S. versions of products such as Netflix. On 06/08/15 09:45 AM, Bob Bernstein wrote: I became curious about the recent vpn thread here, and went browsing around th

OT: *FREE* VPN! Why?

2015-08-06 Thread Bob Bernstein
I became curious about the recent vpn thread here, and went browsing around the 'net. I was staggered (well, not really, that's just an expression, right?) to see the huge number of ventures offering free vpn. I know what vpn is, and what it does, and out of curiosity I have in the past set it