Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
HOW PRIVATE IS your internet connection? The simple answer is not very: data is sent and received over the internet in so–called “packets”. First, those packets can be linked to your computer, because they’re tagged with the public IP address allocated to your modem router by your internet provider. This enables data to transmit between servers without getting lost, but obviously means your internet activity can be traced back to your door.
Second, unless the data contained within those packets has been encrypted by whatever service you’re using — your online banking app, for example, or a secure (https) website — then its contents
