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work in a public place then you need to
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retain your privacy with a VPN let's
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talk about it Dave Taylor here and I
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want to talk about Virtual Private
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Networks or VPNs now you might not know
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what this is this might be something you
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think oh is that something like those
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hacker types used but the fact is it's a
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simple technology and boy you should
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really be using it let's talk about the
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places where it's important to retain
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your privacy any public Wi-Fi so that
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includes like Starbucks that includes
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the public library any public network
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for example a hotel anything like that
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there's lots of other reasons but those
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are one of the biggest reasons is that
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when you use a network that other people
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are also using you have no idea if
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they're monitoring what you're doing now
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you might say hey what kind of privacy
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do I need I don't need to be obsessed
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about this I'll just not go to my online
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bank while I'm at Starbucks but that's
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not a great solution because things like
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Facebook and Gmail all the stuff you do
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online all the stuff you do on your
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computer it's all open and exposed and
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you might be surprised how often your
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account and password is being sent to
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Rivera fie your identity even though you
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think you're already logged in every
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single time someone else could actually
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snag that data and login as you now that
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sounds pretty bad but there's more - so
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what about things like your search
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history what about your location you
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might not realize it but the computer is
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tracking your location you don't need to
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be using a smartphone or anything like
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that even just a regular computer like
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this go to Google Maps go to Apple Maps
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and say find me and then realize that if
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you can do that and have it figure out
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exactly where you are so can other
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people me I don't really like that kind
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of privacy so I'm a big fan of VPNs and
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I use one all the time and so the
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concepts really easy if you think of the
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internet as this sort of big vague cloud
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it's probably not a great metaphor but
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said that it's a bunch of different
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destinations and when you go to bing.com
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to do a search or you go to facebook.com
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you connect directly to that computer
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now that means if someone's watching
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that connection they can see what you're
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doing but what if you had a central
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computer that everything routed to and
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then from there it expanded out and what
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if the connection between your system
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and that remote computer was all
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encrypted that's exactly what a VPN is
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and it gives you all sorts of
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interesting side effects for example if
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I go to Europe on a trip and I want to
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stay up on my latest Netflix shows when
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I go and log in on my hotel Wi-Fi
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network Netflix will say you're not in
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the US you don't have access to these
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shows now for me that's gonna be really
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frustrating because it's like I'm a paid
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subscriber I would like to just watch
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the next episode of my favorite show so
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VPNs also give you the opportunity to
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spoof your location which is really nice
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now there's a more serious side to this
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too because there are places where you
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are being blocked because of where you
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are obvious ones are at work or at
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school they might block things like
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social networks you might really want to
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go onto Facebook while you're in your
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school okay the VPN would give you the
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ability to do that but even more serious
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than that is there are countries where
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they block access to specific stuff in
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China for example it's not easy to get
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onto Facebook at all and it's really not
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easy to go and watch YouTube videos that
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haven't already been screened by the
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Chinese censors not super big fan of
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that Twitter Linkedin watsapp a lot of
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these programs are being filtered by
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various countries and various
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governments and if you live there you
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might not want them telling you what you
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can visit online a VPN solves that
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perfectly now what else can we tell you
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so Hulu again if you're out of the
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country and you want to watch a
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particular Hulu show you can actually
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pretend that you're in the u.s. for
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example by using your veep
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and choosing which of the many many many
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servers you want to actually connect to
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so I often connect to a server in Dallas
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Texas for example so if I'm using a
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piece of software or if I'm going to
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connect to a website that's checking
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location it'll say oh you're in Texas
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okay that's part of the u.s. you have
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access to all this content very nice now
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it's also the case that if you're using
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a VPN it can really protect you if
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you're visiting the dark web if you're
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doing stuff that I probably don't want
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to know about like BitTorrent or
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something really don't break the law
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don't violate copyrights and stuff but
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if you are intrigued by that and you do
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want to gain access to that a VPN
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protects your privacy there too so
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people in the tar community are huge
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fans of VPNs finally here's another one
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and this is a really modern one is that
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when you do calls over VoIP or calls
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over Wi-Fi that means that the public
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Wi-Fi that you're using for that phone
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call gives people the opportunity to tap
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and potentially analyze and listen to
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so again a VPN can be a nice solution to
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that and which VPN to use I'll come back
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and talk about that in some other videos
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but there's a lot of choices out there I
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will say whatever you choose boy it's
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gonna be better than having nothing and
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just trusting all the people around you
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I'm not hugely trusting of other people
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but you know get a good VPN and you
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could be in the middle of an internet
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cafe and the most dangerous most likely
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to be hacked community and you're gonna
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be safe so this is Dave Taylor highly
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encouraging you to do some more research
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and find out about VPNs and I will catch