How a VPN Works
Video Overview & Insights
A visual guide into how a VPN works with helpful use cases.
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PATREON
the routable address usually is assigned to the client router, not the ISP server, but the IP routing is a whole different topic
Also, usually for your home, the router is the DNS server, with it having the recursive server being the ISP or another service, which deals with looking it up... That too is a very complicated multi-tiered topic.
VPNs not keeping logs or details: many of them actually do keep that, as shown in court records from subpoenaed data. Many VPNs sell the information like you say ISPs do; that is why they are free. I like the added section about how some do that.
Your description of a honeypot isn't correct. Hotspots mostly have eavesdropping, then next most common is where it's a fake AP (either man in the middle where they are connected to the AP, or with it's own internet connection), to monitor the traffic or redirect it to a malicious site (through redirecting DNS)
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Before 2022 I even could not understand what for VPN is needed. Nowadays in a country where I forced to live you cannot use internet without VPN, otherwise only local web-sites with propaganda are opened for users. Thanks clever people, who invented VPN and continue to make it more sophisticated to bypass government censorship and geographical restrictions on websites.
PRIVATE WORK
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was coming to comment asking Jake to do video for what happens when you connect to vpn, and boom its already here!
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If Only you can do how traffic move through the OSI Model from Layer 7 to Layer 1
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can you do: how an HVAC system works?
SOFTWARE USED
I use Blender 3D to create these models. It's free and open source, and the community is amazing:
Wtf is this? Did you even try? Using hide expert vpn just saying
https://www.blender.org/
Chapters:
DNS is domain name service
0:00 Intro
0:25 Normal browsing / IP addresses
Thanks
0:41 Packets
1:15 ISP
fyi nordvpn actually does keep logs and they are public about it.
1:37 DNS Lookup
2:18 ISP logs
You should do animation of a OVH VPN and a NFO VPN like what is the difference?! Nice animation tho!
3:02 VPN
4:11 Useful scenarios
Wrong. Even if the VPN says it does not keep logs they could be. Never use a free VPN. Use an audited, open source VPN like Mullvad.
4:22 Secure connection
4:51 Privacy
Any plans to do more IT/Cyber things?
5:45 Bypassing Bocks
6:03 Location Restricted Content
Hasan❤Tan
6:20 Limitations / Logs
6:44 VPN Legality and Blocking
Tan sagisman❤
7:05 Obfuscated Servers
7:19 Privacy vs. Anonymity
Me too buddy! Had to email this to my email for keepsake
7:34 Broswer Fingerprinting
7:52 Deep Packet Inspection
vpn works by sending your signal straight to israeli IDF 😉
8:15 OpSec
8:31 Conclusion
Finally a clear explanation! I enjoyed the video very much. You just earned a sub!
More User Perspectives
loved it.
@happysingh0303im watching this from an VPN
@TheUnderscore16Tysm
@LucretiusDracoDaam im scared to what my isp seeess he must think im wired asf
@central-gt2grSux the way it just cuts off.
@SuggonDeeznutz-z6oThank you, this is a really good video explaining how it works
@VeryLuckyMonkeYeah, I was confused about "it encrypts your requests" thing when you need a server/computer/service to have specifivlc requests
@shinita-xj3srSuch a good explanation😃
@MariemMili4VPNS DO LOG YOUR TRAFFIC AND WILL RELEASE IT TO THE FEDS IF ASKED FOR. STOP LIYING GLOWIE
@Flint---Miller Mark Anderson Jose Walker Betty
@PalmerZora-e1sNarrator switches between "datta" and "dayta"... 😭
@LuckyDC.703Stefanie Ways
@AdolphPearl-w9gSo i can use reddit again witbout being blocked for life 😂
@GrymeJrGreat сontent
@Voblin_bokoblinI think this was made for my grand grand grand mother who grew up in 1800's lol
@CyberDevilSecJust bc VPNs say they don’t keep logs makes it true? How about the CIA says they don’t run VPNs so then It must be true.
@THATMOFODIRTWOW :O
I am amazed. Great job
As someone with almost
5 years of HTML
4 Years of Python and
3 Years of CSS
You couldn't be more in the wrong.
Best explanation of how a VPN actually works!!
@alan_1321very cool video, thanks
@demonview6075Excellent visual and explanation
@elijahfWhy didn't you talk about proxy?
@maemilevThe best video I've found on YouTube ❤
@someshmahajan7903Any chance of getting
"How the dark web works" or "How the TOR works"
I assume those are similar
Awesome video
@allibababooLove your videos bro
@dmshot48Would really like to know - "who owns and controls these VPN companies?" Don't see companies like Google, Microsoft, Norton, etc. Are these VPN companies based in Eastern Europe, China, where? Who are the major shareholders? How can we be sure the VPN company does not do nefarious things to know our data that is not encrypted? How can we feel safe if the owner of the VPN is secret?
@AussieRules-123Super Animation 👍💪🏽
@ludwigh3712Can I translate your video into another language and upload it on YouTube?
@habaritechSwahili4:00 "your VPN does not keep a log"
How can you prove that statement? Technically they can.
"The VPN doesn't keep logs" sounds like Nord VPN actually directed this video and you had no choice.
The can chose to keep logs if they wanted to.