Whats the scoop on VPN's?

Virtual Private Networks. They've been around for a long time and companies use them to provide their own secure network via this virtual private network across the Internet. Back in the day I designed and sold enterprise networks that required dedicated data circuits (pre Internet 76 to 86) but today people utilize VPN technology to do basically the same thing but utilizing the Internet for the "backbone."

Fast Eddy is the answer man on all things technical plus I have zero idea about the greatest way of flying under the radar.

I have been been running a VPN between my network and my parents network for like the last 15 years. It makes it appear as one single network. We also use many VPN technologies at work.

why do you need to use a VPN? There are other or easier things that may do better for you depending on what you need

If you want to fly under the radar look into TOR or the dark web.

Of course they still managed to break up silk road, so for all it's encryption they still seem to have a way track you.

If somebody truly knows how to stay anonymous on the web these days, they're likely to be keeping it a closely held secret.

The silk road situation was all about bitcoin, from what I understand.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/09/05/follow-the-bitcoin…

Then again, there has been news about backdoors being specifically built into various protocols for NSA snooping purposes.

A VPN proxy should be fine if you are just accessing sites through the great firewall of china, as long as you're using encryption with the tunneling protocols.

http://lifehacker.com/237227/geek-to-live--encrypt-your-web-browsing-se…