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    • MattSpellerM
      MattSpeller
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      I blocked the stuffing outta that. Students are occasionally smart and once it's on it would zip through the firewall - had to go manually remove it from the computers. Once off the FW blocked them from visiting the page to get it again.

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller
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        It's a peer to peer VPN that pretty much lets people do anything that they want as if they are your IP, from what I can tell. Popular for getting around censorship, and to represent as if you are in another location. So popular for Europeans to get American television shows or Americans to get British ones, for example.

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          A Former User @scottalanmiller
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          @scottalanmiller said:

          It's a peer to peer VPN that pretty much lets people do anything that they want as if they are your IP, from what I can tell. Popular for getting around censorship, and to represent as if you are in another location. So popular for Europeans to get American television shows or Americans to get British ones, for example.

          So It's basically TOR again.

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          • JaredBuschJ
            JaredBusch @A Former User
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            @thecreativeone91 said:

            So It's basically TOR again.

            Sometimes your responses just seem exceedingly simplistic.. It it not anything like TOR. Not any more than Pertino is like Hamachi.

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            • DashrenderD
              Dashrender @JaredBusch
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              @JaredBusch said:

              @thecreativeone91 said:

              So It's basically TOR again.

              Sometimes your responses just seem exceedingly simplistic.. It it not anything like TOR. Not any more than Pertino is like Hamachi.

              but in the most simplest of terms it is.

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller @A Former User
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                @thecreativeone91 said:

                @scottalanmiller said:

                It's a peer to peer VPN that pretty much lets people do anything that they want as if they are your IP, from what I can tell. Popular for getting around censorship, and to represent as if you are in another location. So popular for Europeans to get American television shows or Americans to get British ones, for example.

                So It's basically TOR again.

                TOR is obfuscation. This is simply a VPN with automated geolocation selection.

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                • scottalanmillerS
                  scottalanmiller @Dashrender
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                  @Dashrender said:

                  but in the most simplest of terms it is.

                  In what way is it like the parts of TOR that were important? By that logic, is TOR just a VPN? That's all this is.

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                  • DashrenderD
                    Dashrender
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                    In so much that you've obfuscated your IP to appear to be coming from another country to get around export controls.

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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller @Dashrender
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                      @Dashrender said:

                      In so much that you've obfuscated your IP to appear to be coming from another country to get around export controls.

                      It's not really obfuscated, though, only to the point of making geolocation fooled, not to protect your privacy. TOR was extremely different.

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                      • DashrenderD
                        Dashrender @scottalanmiller
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                        @scottalanmiller said:

                        @Dashrender said:

                        In so much that you've obfuscated your IP to appear to be coming from another country to get around export controls.

                        It's not really obfuscated, though, only to the point of making geolocation fooled, not to protect your privacy. TOR was extremely different.

                        OK you're right! but the idea behind what I was getting it is also right, basic obfuscation and I'm sure that's what @thecreativeone91 probably meant by it too.

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                          A Former User @Dashrender
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                          @Dashrender said:

                          @scottalanmiller said:

                          @Dashrender said:

                          In so much that you've obfuscated your IP to appear to be coming from another country to get around export controls.

                          It's not really obfuscated, though, only to the point of making geolocation fooled, not to protect your privacy. TOR was extremely different.

                          OK you're right! but the idea behind what I was getting it is also right, basic obfuscation and I'm sure that's what @thecreativeone91 probably meant by it too.

                          Yep, I'm sure it's some of the same people using it. I really never understood using these it's too risky. If you need a VPN get a virtual server you can use or something.

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                          • scottalanmillerS
                            scottalanmiller @A Former User
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                            @thecreativeone91 said:

                            Yep, I'm sure it's some of the same people using it. I really never understood using these it's too risky. If you need a VPN get a virtual server you can use or something.

                            In this case, it's because you want to select the country out of a large list, some of which you cannot easily get a virtual server in. Normal people can't maintain a dozen virtual servers around the world and build their own VPNs just to watch television.

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