Don't Use a VPN...it's not the ultimate security fix you've been told
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- There are valid reasons to use a VPN (which I'll explain), but if you listen to most TH-camrs, a VPN has somehow become the end-all-be-all security and privacy app. It's not.
This isn't the most popular opinion on the internet, but it's true. In this video, we cover:
▶ The truth about your current internet security (without a VPN)
▶ What are the legitimate reasons to use a VPN?
▶ What are the things that a VPN CANNOT do?
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Video Timestamps
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0:00 - Introduction to VPNs
1:27 - Internet Security Truths
3:07 - What does a VPN do?
5:15 - What does a VPN not do?
6:11 - The biggest threat to your online security and privacy
6:47 - How to avoid common security issues
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In this video, I'll clarify the confusion around the security and privacy that a virtual private network, or "VPN" can provide you. There's a lot of misinformation floating around TH-cam and the internet!
Additionally, we'll cover the biggest threat to your online security that no piece of software can fix - and what you can do to deal with it. - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
Do you trust your VPN to protect your online security? Leave a comment below sharing your thoughts on VPNs, and make sure to subscribe to the All Things Secured TH-cam channel...thanks!
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Can someone monitor your activity if using open wifi even if the website is secured with TLS?
I just want privacy for ps4 online some kid was telling me my location
I've been completely hacked i can't even google anything could u please help me sir I just lucked up an seen ur vid hear ?
@Game Start But what about TLS though? Can someone still see your activity using open wifi even on websites with TLS encryption?
@@ericlewis8264 So, what exactly can you do? Can you still work click on things in the O.S space?
Security is a practice, not a product.
Exactly. I have four routers and never set up any account with them and the internet works amazing and everything is super cool. The routers are cooled down regularly so they can be used half of the day which means most of the time needed to use them.
well obviouslly, security is a general noun
agreed
Yes your statement makes this video useless.
@@Yatukih_001 your routers get hot?
Imagine if he ended the video. “this video is made possible by our sponsor: _____VPN”
Tom scott
ROFL
😂
Don’t forget Tunnel Bear
VPN or RAID SHADOW LEGENDS. Pick your poison. lol
Finally! Somebody that explains this clearly without bias.
As an IT professional myself, I cringe when I hear some TH-cam creators / marketers make ridiculous claims about what a VPN can do...
Shows how nobody researches this, even those who get sponsored 💀
@@BlawckyNord vpn Get now ! Pay only 999.999$ Per day for Maximum Protection and safety
@Blawcky they get a paycheck for reading the script provided. When I was a teen, I thought that a vpn would protect me from viruses. Later i told my brother about the amazing world of VPNs, then he laughed at the virus protection statement. At that moment I thought about why he laughed, and realized I was just regurgitating marketing BS. And opened my mind to take everything anybody says with a grain of salt, except for a handful of people. and I have become more aware of the tactics people will use and I use those very same tactics today in my career. So yeah.
@@Blawcky Agreed, but more than that, it shows that their marketing really works!
That’s because they’re reading a script that was given to them.
Preach Josh, preach! I've just found your channel and I am loving the content you're putting out. I appreciate the clear and concise videos that have a simple goal - to educate people about online and data security for themselves. Keep up the great work!
I appreciate the kind words! 🙏
This man just killed every tech TH-camrs career.
Except Tom Scott and Techquickie who also dismissed VPNs.
Nope because as the man said you can't cure stupid.
good... the world is a better place without them
Not exactly
Except everyone ...
Well, web 3 might be a solution in the future. I'm not advertising it, but I do have a decentralized VPN hardware. It works well so far.
What makes the Decentralized VPN better? Because data isnt logged, so can't be hacked? How are you liking it so far? Easy to use or what
@hye quin yea deeper is good. There're a couple of options available depending on if you're using it at home or on the road.
You don’t need the blockchain to have a decentralized vpn service lol
I really think in an ideal world, high school classes would have some sort of internet safety course. I don’t blame anyone for their ignorance on this topic, but I do believe we can make systemic changes to fix it.
I'm surprised they don't frankly. My eldest has learned from me not to do stupid crap ... he did once and saw the repercussions from his virus that my firewall noticed and emailed me about IMMEDIATELY (gotta love Sophos UTM9). And whilst it's not a bad thing I educated him, I'm not sure why the school didn't at least share that burden.
In an ideal world, science would be taught in public school. Not history of ignorant slaveowners.
There's no money to be made in internet safety classes. That's just one more way to keep people from exploring the web stores. It's all about the Benjamins!
Why do you think the internet isn't being used to collaborate to make this world a better place? No advancements until profits are to be made from it. Government has dibs btw.
this is never going to happen because the government is the one who mainly tracks everything you do and everything you can do as well as directing you like a puppet to fit thierr needs not yours not anyone else there needs
@@mark6744-cb5tz except linux is still VERY lacking in many regards with hardware support amongst other things. I'm all for linux on servers but it's not there as a real non-geek desktop environment yet. Shame as OSX seems to have, just I hate crApple. Linux has it's share of virus's as well.
And yes a lot of the newer viruses won't show on regular virus scanners, I wasn't suggesting it was an anti-virus that found it either if you read carefully.
Thank You for your ongoing information. It has really helped me and parents (65 + people using computers). They almost got hacked but called me first and I thwarted it before it happened. Keep Up the Great work!!
As a third year student majoring cyber-security, I will say: smart decisions and having awareness of risks is significantly more important than having a VPN. Security is a practice, it relies on people following rules/policies and making good choices to minimize the likelihood of attack occurring. Don't buy into the fear-tactic marketing or buzz-phrases like "Military-grade encryption".
Agreed. The marketing terms are there to impress you, not educate you.
Military grade is usually garbage
I have a question can you help me answer please ? It's In regards to a good source VPN I can trust. And a follow up question please ?
@D. Johnston 702 yes. Any thing you do online wants you to sign up
@@AllThingsSecured Recently a "Twin-Evil" Cyber Attack was made on my laptop & I'm not able to access my wifi & a unknown device named MAC4 is connected to my wifi router.
What Should I Do?
Kindly Help Please!
Yes, you are right. I am watching this video on TH-cam using a VPN, I have to because I am in China.
there are unblocker services
@@ruripapi I do not know what they are. When I first arrived in China Google was ok, they had large offices here, but then there was some problem or other between them and China. It is a great place to live here though.
@@paulhogan2930 they bypass the firewall
Thanks for the info.
@@paulhogan2930 most likely won't work as china tighten their securities besides that which province are you living at
I know nothing about tech and VPNs. Anytime I looked up videos on Vpns they were ads so this was very helpful. I was going to purchase it but now see I don't need it. Thank you.
Your video was reassuring. It basically tells me that I chose to subscribe to a VPN for all of the right reasons and none of the wrong ones.
You can often tell how reliable and trustworthy a person is by how many times they say: "it depends".
"It depends."
~ Red sus
we start out in diapers and then end up in "Depends" 😲
My favorite one is " if you follow trough all the steps and you are constant"; just add the "it depends" at the beginning.
Are they trustworthy if they say depends a lot or a little? I have a bunch of former students who I might need to apologize to.
I appreciate people like you. People that bring hard information. No click bait ads and hype.
Thanks for the kind words, Thomas.
No click bait, the title is exactly that its Click Bait 101
LOL "NO clickbait" imagine saying "NOT the ultimate security fix yeah hackers just use it so they dont get ddosed and there location is spoofed but like cmon this video is a waste of a lot of peoples
@@AllThingsSecured Yes Thanks ;)
the title is literally "Don't use a VPN"
how is that not clickbait?
Thanks bro finally someone who isn't posting malware or fake stuff, you deserve my subscribe!
Thanks for the great synopses! It didn't teach me anything new, I've been doing IT & IT Sec for 20+ years combined, but this is great content for the average user who might be sold by the crooked ads with outrageous claims.
Finally an honest guy that’s not affiliated to this vpn companies. I’m subscribing to your channel , dude. Thanks
Thanks, Alberto.
Should I get a vpn to stream iptv live channels only. I watch my movies on Netflix and Amazon prime which these companies pay for there movies so I shouldnt have to use a vpn for that right? Just wondering..: Thanks for your info
@@stayhumble6437 Wdym? Do you wanna access Netflix and Amazon of other countries? If so Vpn is the right tool for you.
EXCEPT when you see him PUSH (although he says it's an unbiosed review) NORDVPN in one of his previous videos ...
can you say hypocrisy ?
@@EJSmith-dk3yg just because he uses a VPN doesn't mean he is untrustworthy.
FACT @ 3:07 "It's virtually impossible to be 100% private" (Learn it. Know it. Live it.)
the only way to be 100% private is to not be on the internet at all
Unless you are NASA
What about that island in the Indian Ocean if you try to visit and the indigenous people will kill u. Pretty private to me lol
@Bank help tech paypal manipulate your numbers. you carry a tracker and identification willingly in your pocket it’s called a phone
@PAYPAL manipulates your numbers with help of bank. You're a nut.
thanks Dude. Very informative and easy to understand
Man, you're rocks! Thank You for your course !!! I've learned so much!!!
Bravo, its great that people like you are saying this and that the message gets spread far and wide. The weakest link in any secure system is the person that needs it
Ex IT professional now trying to get back into the IT world, damn fine explanation that hopefully helps people make an informed choice, without listening to a lot of the BS that is out there. New subscriber gained!! Keep up the good work!!
Best video on TH-cam by far explaining this. It annoys me so much seeing these so called "influencers" promoting all these products, especially VPN services and providing misinformation on a daily basis just so they can make a quick buck. Thank you for making such great content!
I mainly use my vpn to change my location in some cases its useful because sometimes content are blocked when ur on different country also the easy way for me chaging my IP .
The multi-million dollar question these days is: "Why on earth do people want to be influenced by somebody else"? Why don't people do their own research anymore, ask themselves what are important aspects for them, and thrust themselves.
This is a very useful and informative video without any product endorsement. Good job keep it up!
100 percent on topic and on point regarding VPN. Its simply an extra layer of security that does not replace end user awareness and cybersecurity training.
Thanks, Shane!
Education comes in many flavors. I suppose it doesn't always have to be truth.
Good explanation. I use a VPN for privacy reasons. Since all the data is encrypted, the ISP provider can not track the sites, that you have been visiting. The weak point is indeed that you have to trust the VPN provider and that they do not keep logs.
Which VPN do you recommend?
which do you use?
All VPNs keep logs, they or the hosting company has to in order to comply with various Laws. In the UK your data is logged and stored. The VPN often rents servers, so the company providing them or the connection logs.
Great video… thank you! I’m a new subscriber, I appreciate your straightforward honesty about internet security.
With your videos my learning curve will shrink drastically. Thank you.
We need more honest folks like yourself on social media giving complex information out there today.
There's no money to be made with honesty. 🤣
@@budsak7771 That's It!
...accurately.
...precisely.
Thank you for this video, you're one of the small amount of youtuber who actually know what they are talking about. You deserve a lot more attention.
Thanks, Derek.
@@AllThingsSecured host my own vpn
thank you! I didnt know enough to know myself, but now I feel better informed
Thanks bro for the valuable information 😊
You gotta just love and respect it when you get an honest opinion, combined with factual data and the presenter isn’t sponsored by what they are promoting. Sir, you just gained a follower and a friend. 😃 Thank You
YES , I just came across his channel and had also earned another subscriber from me.
Well said.
Honest instead of influenced? 🤣
Makes me put the question of Who is the real influencer? out there
wouldn't matter to me, even if it was paid promo...... I do my own research as well..
Great and well put video. Keep up the good work! Your speech is amazing, soothing
Thank you so much!
SO GOOD!!! Thank you for excellent, meaningful, well explained content!
I just want to thank you so much for this informative video. i didn't understand what a VPN was or why its useful. My teenager tried to explain it to me, but he even had it wrong. Thank you for putting it in simple terms for those of us that are not as computer savvy.
A truly informative video. I'd be glad to watch ad for this.
Protect your sensitive data. Don't share them on social platforms or other places. Be smart, not cowardly.
Thank you for keeping it real !
I love your straightforward, non-condescending, informative method of instruction! Thanks for the video, I am a fan!
It's somewhat rare to find IT information delivered in a non-condescending tone! 😂😂😂
You are good at explaining things. Great video.
Straight to the point - I wish all YT vids were like this.
Thanks!
:/ You don't know what you are doing with VPN this guy is Like "SECURTY" VPN systems literally all it is just changing your ip but it isn't then ultimate security fix i wouldn't Say *Straight to the point*
Clear, concise and above all direct. What a brilliant job of conveying a message on a subject that most people know of, but don’t know about.
Subscribed 👍
Thanks, Glen!
Thank you so much for being honest and helping people like me. I was thinking about getting a VPN but after listening to your wisdom and advice truly help me. I have subscribed to your website to listen to more good advice and wisdom from you.
thanks for a very informative topic. good job!
Brilliant video Josh , thank you very much letting everyone know about this 👍
Glad you liked it, Peter.
Thanks for your info man.
It really helps to understand these things better
Depending on what I am doing, I will avoid public Wi-Fi, and use my cellular phone's hotspot instead, since I have enough data in my phone plan. I have discontinue my VPN supscription after watching videos similar to this one. Thank you to people like you for saving us money.
been watching a lot of VPN videos lately and this is one of the BEST ones. Thanks for this @All Things considered!
This was very helpful. Thank you!
Keep up the great work, I now use a link to your video to save the pain, time and q&a cycle trying to explain this to family and friends who have limited or no knowledge of any of this content.
It's hard to explain over and over again, particularly to older generations, I'll circle back there, more so people that haven't got experience, training and all the interest technology etc. They get thrown off, pretty much straight away, when you say IP address or anything to that regard, VPN and all the other acronyms in the IT world, can quickly get you stuck in a long and difficult explanation or demo then somewhat liable if they make a mistake!
Now I can keep defaulting back to your video 😂
YT algorithm pick so first time watching this channel and I like it - well presented and good straight to the point content
Well done! Thanks for the clarity. I ended up here because I could not see how a VPN could all the things I see claims of. And here you are. Making it clear. THANKS.
You are welcome, Shawn! Thanks for watching and commenting.
Nailed it.
Wow! I need to learn one of two things from you. That intro was just wow! ✌️👌
Ha! Thanks so much 🙏🙏
They are fear mongering liars
I was about to get a VPN until I saw your video. Even though I knew a bit about them, this tipped my thinking that the extra trouble and $$ wasn't worth it. Thanks!
Thank you so much. Vey informative and easy to understand. Highly appreciated.
Fantastic no BS video! Thanks very much!
As someone in this business, I appreciate your straight talk and the common sense approach - excellent. Why do we call it "common sense" since it is not very common?
Glad you like it, Bashir! 🙏
Subbed great content keep up the good work!
Congratulations! I respect your work! 😊
Perfect explanation, thanks for the video 👍
"This video was sponsored by NordVPN!"
🤣🤣
*sick of hearing that a video has been sponsored by a VPN. . . who needs sponsorship for an internet video??
Just asking.
He should have done that at the end! I would have wet myself laughing.
@@davidadams421 TMI
💀
THANKS !!! Knowledge is power. The more you know....... Great info.
Thank you, Thank you, well said great please do more. Your the best. Again thanks 🙏
That last point is gold. Been online since dialup and can count on less than one hand the number of security issues I've had to handle, all resolved myself in short order.
Ultimately - Nothing beats the security suite right between your ears.
Recently I was feeling really nervous about going around on the internet, especially because all the VPN ads had been starting to get me feeling like my password on the internet weren’t enough but this video honestly helped a lot, although I might still get a VPN just to location spoof for the hell of it
Thank you for this informative and educational video!
Great video.
Much needed clarity.
I use a VPN for 2 reasons and 2 reasons only: Watching shows in different countries and stopping my ISP from seeing the websites I visit.
@@Teolope Internet Service Provider (the company you pay to provide you your WiFi).
@Lewis But aren't you giving that information to your vpn provider? If so, then why do you trust the vpn provider more than your isp?
@@poshun9407 Well, my VPN providor doesnt have my address
@@REAZNx Does your vpn provider know your full name / bank details?
@@poshun9407 They do not, I pay with crypto
Been saying the same thing for years - good video that explains it properly
It can't get anymore simple than this. Thank you soo much howtobasic!
You are dope bro! Damn , thank you so much, subbed
Just found your channel, and love the contents of this video. And just became a subscriber. Thx !!
Awesome, thanks Jeff!
Awesome video! It's always nice when somebody puts out no-nonsense info, especially on things that have become snake oil.
Glad it was helpful, Matthew!
Thank for this awesome and informative video☺️
This was incredible. Thank you.
Really nice video man. Respect
Great video, especially pointing out that we ourselves are our biggest threat to security lol, makes sense, gotta know at least some of the basics.
nice one bro. Thank you so much
This was very valuable and useful. You gained another subscriber.
Incredibly illuminating. I'm a casual tech user, not a silicone valley acolyte, and I found this explanation extremely clear and very practical. Thanks a bunch.
yeah they help you get around censorship on the web but they do not protect you from hackers and bad people on the web
Can't help but to subscribe! Man easy to understand as a non-prodessional tech.
Thanks so much.
Wow, a no nonsense, No BS Honest tech.. Yes the biggest obstacle to sound security practices is the user.. Also consistency is a must... TY.....
Solid information! Thank you!!
Social engineering, destroying all your network security since the beginning of the internet and something a VPN cannot protect against. Thanks for a great and honest video on the subject.
Thanks. 🙏
I just want to add that another legitimate reason for using a VPN (and also one of the reasons they were developed) is to remotely connect to another (private) network, hence the name "Virtual Private Network". It can be very useful to connect to, for example, your company's intranet to access services within your company's network while working remotely.
In this case, the VPN service will be provided by YOUR company of course.
Thanks a lot for making this video as it will hopefully clear up the mis-understanding that a lot of people have about VPNs (that VPN companies make them believe!)
@@sgholt Not necessarily.
My first use of VPNs was to link several sites in one business so that everyone was on the same apparent LAN, servers synchronised all data immediately and invisibly, and the same logins worked wherever you were on the network, gave access to the same data (and still denied access to anything you would not be accessing), and even allowed you to have the same desktop (subject to screen resolution) if you logged in in the US or UK, as user profiles were replicated along with other data. If someone on a different continent needed a hardcopy of one of the documents you owned, you could print it right to their local printer, although of course, the US use of non-ISO paper sizes did create some formatting problems in the early stages of the roll-out, this was soon eliminated by the use of standard templates which fit on both 8.5"x11" and A4, but with different margins.
We just used internal IP addresses in the rfc1918 private sector of 192.168.x.x space, and at a company-wide level supernetted them onto a /21 CIDR network, although locally, each site used a different /24 subnet for its own DHCP server.
Given the technology of the time (pre-ADSL) it all worked remarkably well. We even had VOIP working so that a user at any site could dial out of any other site as well as their own, the VOIP software choosing the route which gave the least expensive call automatically.
No Warez involved, at all.
Been dealing with corporate client vpn and site-to-site VPNs last 15 years..
That is NOT what VPNs mentioned on youtube are for or sold for. Corporate VPNs are different.
I worked as a product development engineer designing high-end computers for a couple of decades... been using systems online since the 90s. I've never used an antivirus and I've never had a virus.
Thanks for the informative video.
Appreciate it.
When looking for airline deals, what are the Pro's & Cons of using a VPN?
First time I watch you, subscribed immediately. I appreciate the good work, thanks!
Thanks for making this video! Every time I see one of those VPN ads, I go "Aaaaaargh! Some poor sap is gonna fall for this."
One thing I feel you should emphasize more though is the Privacy/Anonymity thing, since that's one of the main selling point of those ads: Everything you hide from your ISP, you show the VPN service instead. Don't trust your ISP with that information? That's fine, but why should you trust your VPN service more?
Anyway, I'll make sure to show this video to my social circle :D
Exactly right. You're simply shifting your trust away from your ISP and toward a VPN, which is often a very shady, unknown entity.
@@AllThingsSecured It depends on who you are trying to hide from. ISPs generally have ties to a country's government so they are more ready to share information with the gov. Getting information from a foreign country's VPN can be a jurisdiction nightmare (depending upon the country).
Yeah man. me too. I go crazy in the commments of every video i see VPN ads in. LTT is the one that annoys me the most though.
I gotta say, I find myself more inclined to trust the VPN company than ATnT or Verizon. At least the VPN company hasn't PROVEN itself to be willing to sell you to the highest bidder.
That is to the point. VPN is all about encryption. At the end of tunnel, you are exposed to someone else.
Thank you for making this video and hope you don’t mind I shared with others
Woah, great video mate!
"Don't Use a VPN.".... a little bit misleading title there...
Nice video tho
Agreed! A better title would have been something like - False claims about the benefits of VPN: Do you really need one?
textbook example of CLICKBAIT
its just another youtube milking a fucking controversial claim for views nothing new
If you are using properly secured Wi-Fi at home a firewall is more important. The VPN gives you no added security. Your plain open router still exists as an up address.
You want a VPN if you use open or other shared wifi.
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Great information. Using VPN moves my trust from my ISP and internal network to the breakout point of the VPN provider. These private VPN are useable to move the trust when you are in an internet cafe or using open hotspots, completely untrusted places to use the internet.
Very helpful! Thank you! I liked and subscribed :-)
Thank you. You have a point that the biggest internet security threat is ourselves!!!
It's true!
But it is the “watch Netflix from another country” product I was promised.
Great! Then you should be good to go.
Not all VPN's work with Netflix
@@tonysicily2687 Nord VPN and Express VPN.
Yes. Most of them. At least the ad was honest.
My NordVPN does not work with Netflix. Even though I connect to a US server, I still see the shitty content served in Europe.
Thank you! It helped a lot.
Yes. I Liked, Subscribed, and clicked the Bell. Why? Because I learned long ago I'm not neary as smart as I think I am. Knowledge is Power and the world is changing at the speed of Light. Thanks for assisting me in keeping up.
Finally a person telling the truth.
I make VPN servers, so this is obvious.
*Tom Scott, Teckquickie, etc.
If most of your use is on public wifi, maybe get a VPN.
Every other situation is highly specific and probably doesn't even apply to you.
Yea... you can look at it that way. I would say VPN's are poorly marketed, as its more of a service for combating general restriction, location tracking and ISP monitoring. Which at least 2 of those three things are universal problems. SO its not like they are lying, just grossly exaggerating the service.
@@asoftraiden Yeah this video was an unfortunate waste of my time... I thought it would bring up some really interesting and new info about VPN limitations and instead I got a talking head reexplaining the majority of a VPN's user base.