• fatalError@lemmy.sdf.org
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    4 months ago

    To ensure your unecrypted data(which is rare these days) is not clear-text in an untrusted network such as public wifi.

    • Prison Mike@links.hackliberty.org
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      4 months ago

      Yes but this isn’t the point I’m getting at — VPN doesn’t always mean you’re sending all your Internet traffic down the tunnel. You can choose to configure only specific networks to use the VPN tunnel.