Bachelor
Dec 21, 2018Explorer
HTTPS and VPN
I was wondering if one is on a secure website does using a VPN provide extra protection, or is it just redundant? Thanks.
mike-s wrote:Gdetrailer wrote:A lot of people don't get that, though. I'm assuming the current popular use of "VPN", which is a simple attempt at disguising where you're geographically located.
A VPN is no more "secure" than an open wifi, period.
VPNs are just fine, if they connect to the endpoint's network. Otherwise, they add exactly zero additional security (or perhaps less than zero, since they introduce an new "choke point").
Gdetrailer wrote:A lot of people don't get that, though. I'm assuming the current popular use of "VPN", which is a simple attempt at disguising where you're geographically located.
A VPN is no more "secure" than an open wifi, period.
Bachelor wrote:You're fine with that. If you weren't the banking and shopping industries would be collapsing.
I guess, as some of you mentioned, you're more safe using your own hotspot, such as cell phone, your own router, etc.
garry1p wrote:
No matter how secure YOU are the business you shop at bank with or have any transaction with will be a target of hackers they get millions of individual accounts such as Target, Home Depot or any site that clears your CC information is more at risk than the individual. You have no control
Using an open WIFI is normally a one one attract and yes there are many bad actors praying on open WiFi's you just never know until it is to late. You have some level of control use it or....
V{N is point to point encrypted and better than not having it but nothing is totally secure on the internet.
ljr wrote:Hundreds sounds ominous until you compare that to the number of wifi users in total.
I can’t give you a number of cases I helped untangle but it would be in the hundreds..
garry1p wrote:That is a more significant risk because that's where the real gold mine is.
No matter how secure YOU are the business you shop at bank with or have any transaction with will be a target of hackers they get millions of individual accounts such as Target, Home Depot or any site that clears your CC information is more at risk than the individual.
2oldman wrote:ljr wrote:We all have a different tolerance for risk. It's possible I could be in a plane crash too.2oldman wrote:.....and that’s why it works.
So much is possible, but whether it's even in the realm of probability that someone's sitting in Starbucks waiting to steal my information is what I focus on.
Maybe someone will come on here and tell us their experience getting hacked on public wifi.
2oldman wrote:That could be a really long wait.ljr wrote:We all have a different tolerance for risk. It's possible I could be in a plane crash too.2oldman wrote:.....and that’s why it works.
So much is possible, but whether it's even in the realm of probability that someone's sitting in Starbucks waiting to steal my information is what I focus on.
Maybe someone will come on here and tell us their experience getting hacked on public wifi.