Hmm… Lets say you want to send a snail-mail letter from work but do not want your employer to know who you’re sending it to.
Normally, your employer could easily tell because you have to write the destination address on the envolope and they control the mail dropbox. The actual contents of the letter is hidden from your employer, and everyone except the recipiant as they are the only one that can actually open the letter, but you will get in trouble if your employer knows you are communicating with this person, even if they don’t know what you’re saying.
So instead of sending it directly, you get a middleman to forward your letter to the final destination. So you put your actual letter inside another letter addressed to the middleman with instructions to forward your real letter to its real destination.
So using this setup. if you send a letter through the middleman, your employer can not tell who you’re actually communicating with. Just the fact you’re sending letters to this middleman.
How would they know you were torrenting copywrited material?
Thank you for the tips, they are really useful, especially to me that is a novice in VPN world!
I want to watch and download some movies and TV series I like without being noticed by my ISP, and for the first thing I saw that I “consume connection” for other users who use Tor (for example) for better purposes. I do not know if it is true, but it is just a little thing added to the benefits I can get by using a VPN.
It is true with a VPN. The commenter is misinformed. Without knowing where you’re going to and where you’re coming from, traffic wouldn’t be able to be routed. A good VPN encrypts all traffic and unwraps the IP addresses when it reaches a certain hop in its route. Best thing to do is set up a VPN, do a traceroute and make sure the entire path of traffic is going through trusted entities only. Set your VPN options to avoid alternate DNS and make sure DNSSEC is being used.
Their IT department would likely notice the heavy download to your computer from one ip address which resolves to a vpn provider, then simply walking over to you, and demanding to know what you are doing, or just remote login to your work computer and see for themselves. Pretty obvious, really.
Gotcha. Yea a VPN will definitely help. The service I currently use and basically any I have used in the past, seem to come with PC apps that can be set to run automatically at startup, reconnect if disconnected, and not allow internet to work if VPN disconnects. Also most services have Android apps. Finally you can typically use a third party open source VPN app like OpenVPN if you prefer to use that client.