Re: Anonymous Me (or... How I used VPN to Hide the Real Me)

Stand corrected, I thought this was about anonymity, didn't realise you could dictate the datapath when using debit/credit cards.

Re: Anonymous Me (or... How I used VPN to Hide the Real Me)

You've hit the nail on the head, though you may not use Maccas for doing your banking you might wish to use the free wifi provided by hotels to contact your bank while you are travelling. VPN gives you security no matter where you are.

Re: Anonymous Me (or... How I used VPN to Hide the Real Me)

wow is this the end and all happened at the speed of the internet!! OR did human dialogue slow us down?

Re: Anonymous Me (or... How I used VPN to Hide the Real Me)

We do this too and pay by the month direct debited. It's great to be able to watch the BBC programs, both the ones that haven't been here yet and some that never do. We usually watch them on BBC catch up but sometimes in real time.

Re: Anonymous Me (or... How I used VPN to Hide the Real Me)

This is now hitting the nail on the head Bruce? It didn't say this was the main point of setting the VPN up to start with. It was to sometimes try and hide identity from the government. Later pointing out that it was also possible to use it for bypassing whatever measures are deemed fit for a country regarding the pricing of software/itunes/Netflix etc. Might that be a grey area legally (genuine question)?

Re: Anonymous Me (or... How I used VPN to Hide the Real Me)

Being 'anonymous' has huge advantages and shouldn't be discounted. If you can stop Google and all the rest from getting their greedy paws on your online info then all well and good. You have to be very careful these days.

Re: Anonymous Me (or... How I used VPN to Hide the Real Me)

Or what though MKJ? Our details and information are already known by various authorities and businesses in our countries. All related to our real names and street and address. Perhaps on computers that all talk to each other for all we know. Yet we don't worry half as much about this as we do about businesses knowing of our harmless activities on the Internet. Something just seems out of proportion there to me. As I said earlier:

I'd have thought that something untoward would have happened by now if it was going to. Not being totally anonymous on the Internet doesn't seem to be harmful. I'm certainly not anonymous in any other aspect of life and don't really expect to be. Why expect it on the Internet?

Re: Anonymous Me (or... How I used VPN to Hide the Real Me)

Looking at all the companies and government departments who sell our details I am not sure any of us are very anonymous or private anyway these days.

Re: Anonymous Me (or... How I used VPN to Hide the Real Me)

I can understand the need we all have for a certain amount of privacy, but the longer I live the more I see that being taken away, not only on the internet but even now on census forms more and more personal questions are being added to the list, and as we all know filling in a census form is compulsory. Everyone wants to know more about us these days, buy something online and they want you to write a review, advertisements following you to every site you land on, tracking every post you make to wherever etc. As I see it the more people there are in countries and the world the greater the need by the authorities to keep tabs on everyone and what better and cheaper way to do this than on the internet? we all feel intruded on but it makes economic sense to them now that they are hell bent on reducing the armed forces and police. Come the future and there will be absolutely no such thing as privacy for the masses, big brother sneaked in the back door and we didn't see him coming it seems, I’m afraid the bottom line is we’re stuck with it now whether we like it or not so we’ll just have to get used to it.

Re: Anonymous Me (or... How I used VPN to Hide the Real Me)

Wheels within wheels, those who accrue the data are having theirs accrued also., presumably.
Bruce will know for sure.