For many of us, VPNs are an essential tool for using the internet in any capacity.  When you realise that everything you do online is logged and the majority of transactions happen in clear text then you start to be aware of how little privacy you have without one.   Imagine for example there is a list of every web site, every email you sent and every file you downloaded existed somewhere – would you be concerned.  Well that list does exist and it sits in the logs of your local ISP, a complete log of everything you do online.

So it’s hardly surprising that people want to protect their privacy and hide all their online activity from those who wish to monitor our every move.     This is where the VPN is so useful, a virtual private network which encrypts everything you do online and hides all the websites you visit.

There is an issue though, although a VPn will protect your privacy – it’s actually difficult to hide the fact you are using a VPN to protect your privacy.  The problem is that the use of such programs is easy to detect when you look at the logs, because all the web activity is funnelled through a single address.

Fortunately the latest VPN services have the facility to hide these tracks and allow you to rotate the selected address.  This video entitled – How to Block My IP Address demonstrates how it’s done.

If you allow the VPN service to switch IP addresses periodically it will effectively switch between these addresses. This means that there will be no visible tracking in the logs and no record of a single VPN server connected. Of course this is only required if you want to hide the use of a VPN in logs recorded.

Perhaps this might seem overkill in a Western democracy although many suggest it isn’t. However for many across the world using a VPN is essential to access things like simple Social media sites blocked by oppressive regimes. THE VPN serves many purposes from letting people watch the BBC over VPN to genuinely protecting their freedom and liberty.