Recently bought a VPN service for free viewing blocked sites. It is very convenient that you can choose a server at will and the speed is good. But unfortunately I can not find the answer to a simple question about the security of personal data.

If I connect via this VPN, I will log in to my gmail / Yandex mail, internet banking or will I pay with a credit card on which website will it be ok?

  • one
    Your question should be addressed to the person from whom you purchased the service. Typically, the seller details in detail on the site the advantages of their product, sometimes referring to the subtleties, including technical ones, which could be of interest to potential buyers, savvy in the relevant issues. If for any reason the arguments of the seller seemed to you to be inconclusive, compare the information provided by its competitors, the benefit of which is abundant. - alexis031182
  • @ alexis031182 If you have a vpn or would you enter your email or internet banking via vpn? I just wanted to find out if people are doing it this way and is it worth bathing about it at all? - Arman
  • @ alexis031182 the service is more or less promoted, I would not like to be considered advertising, I will not leave a direct link, the service is called hide. I bought from them. - Arman
  • It's hard not to agree with the argument in the @gecube answer. Focus on it. - alexis031182
  • In the case of the Hola service (also VPN), they almost certainly use your machine with their VPN client installed to provide anonymizing services for third parties. Those. divide the question in two - 1. Is the VPN technology safe? 2. Is it safe to install some incomprehensible software on my computer (given that the built-in operating system for connecting to someone else's VPN is full)? - gecube

1 answer 1

Good day!

It should be understood that using a third-party VPN you are on the one hand defending against intruders who can intercept your traffic from the site to the VPN server, but at the same time you completely trust all your traffic to this third-party VPN server. Those. they can intercept him there. Or organize a Mitm attack. Depending on the goals of the owners of this vpn.

Those. summary:

  • if you need to hide your IP address and open a resource and do not want to use a proxy - vpn is a normal solution.
  • if you want to protect your traffic from wiretapping (for example, go online from an internet cafe), then vpn to a trusted server is also a normal solution.

Otherwise - meaningless difficulties.

  • Good day! Thanks for the answer, now it's all clear. - Arman
  • Https after all will not allow to carry out mitm? - Qwertiy ♦
  • @Qwertiy the answer is complicated. Yes and no. What I mean. If https traffic is used, the provider cannot intervene in it just like that. BUT! For example, in Kazakhstan everyone was obliged to deliver the root certificate from the state and in this case any state or near-state provider, it turns out, can decipher the traffic and replace it. - gecube 2:51
  • @gecube, but even if they were obliged (although I’m not sure about something - it seems to have rolled back that initiative), then when you receive this state certificate in the chain, you don’t have to be obligated and on your computer here the chain will be invalid. Or am I missing something? But in general, I have been asking such a question for quite some time - ru.stackoverflow.com/q/828435/178988 - maybe you can write a more detailed answer there, along with other protocols? - Qwertiy ♦
  • @Qwertiy You will have to add this state certificate to exceptions or root certificates on your local computer, otherwise the entire Internet will not work ((( - gecube