Unblock sites with a Personal VPN  

 

What else does a personal VPN hotspot shield provide?

When you connect through a secure VPN, your IP address becomes the one of the trusted server that you are connected to. When you surf, the web site owner does not know who you are and cannot collect information on you based on your IP address. With the gathering of huge amounts of data in recent years via IP address, it is becoming easier and easier to actually identify you based on your address.

Do you really want every web site you visit to know your name and address? This ability is mushrooming. Where it can't be done reliably today, the ability will be there in a few years. However, the data collected today lasts forever, in databases around the globe.

Many places restrict access to where you can surf. By connecting through a personal hotspot shield, you are able to surf to any web site since all the requests are  outside the control of the local network owner. Many people live in foreign countries that limit their internet and IP phone access. A Personal VPN hotspot shield will also get around these limitations.
 

I have nothing to hide.

A lot of people think that they are not doing anything on their computer that requires this level of security. Many think they have 'nothing to hide'.

However, if you use email and instant messaging, other people on the network can read everything written. It's no different than if someone were listening to your phone conversation or reading the mail from your mail box. Would you mind that?

Do you make appointments or plan meetings by email or instant messenger? Do you tell your friends where you are going to be at a given time? If so, you need a Personal VPN hotspot shield because the kind of person who will try and steal your data as you sit at a coffee shop or in your hotel room is not the person you want to give your schedule to.

The Wall Street Journal had an article on the very real and growing threat of people hijacking your data. Additionally, The 2007 Annual Hacker Convention in Las Vegas highlighted just how simple it is to compromise a wireless or other non-secure network.

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