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We have now been using Wireguard VPN’s between our Spectrum Cable Internet in Florida and our KPN Internet service in the Netherlands for a couple of weeks so I think we can come to some conclusions. We use these in several ways, let’s start with the simple ones:
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Cloud data became popular with the introduction of Dropbox and today we have iCloud, Google Drive, OneDrive etc. that are all massively popular. While everyone accepts their small print conditions without even reading them, we know from sources like Snowden that governments do mass data surveillance including hacking and threatening
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We run several websites on our MacMini, each with it's own URL, like http://blog.sv-jedi.org/ and http://files.sv-jedi.org/. With only our router having a public IP number, this means that in DNS these names all point to the same IP number, which is on
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WireGuard was created by Jason A. Donenfeld and first appeared around 2015 as a new kind of VPN: lean, fast, modern and strong cryptography. it was added into the Linux kernel in 2020 and into the Mikrotik routers in 2022. Every serious router has it today. When your router has
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Music is a large part of our lives. We have a large music collection that we prefer over any online streaming platform. In the past we converted everything to lossless digital format and used Squeezebox, Logitec and Sonos, progressing as they ceased to exist. For the last couple of years
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I am writing this post sooner than I planned to and the reason is that I discovered that after telephones and drones, they are now also banning simple retail wifi routers. The Orwellian future isn't future anymore... After a lot of testing and spending lots of money on