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Why do you use a VPN to download free and publicly available iso images? (Ubuntu). Just curious. Do you download directly from a mirror or use BitTorrent for this? (If the latter I think I kind of understand the rationale for the VPN)
linux iso is code for pirated content
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> This breaks DNS resolution for company-internal domains. Is this not the case for any VPN or proxying service? In fact, it could even be a security flaw if your internal domains were accessible on external VPN style endpoints?
> Is this not the case for any VPN or proxying service? No, it's not. > In fact, it could even be a security flaw if your internal domains were accessible on external VPN style endpoints? It would be, but then this is not something that happens on a network configured in the way you describe.
I’m not sure what kind of network you believe I described, but would be useful to have a clearer explanation from you.
Does this compare to NextDNS[1]. I moved from Pi Hole[2] to NextDNS and I'm happy with it. 1. https://nextdns.io 2. https://pi-hole.net
Does this compare to NextDNS[1]. I moved from Pi Hole[2] to NextDNS and I'm happy with it. 1. https://nextdns.io 2. https://pi-hole.net
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> This breaks DNS resolution for company-internal domains. Is this not the case for any VPN or proxying service? In fact, it could even be a security flaw if your internal domains were accessible on external VPN style endpoints?
> Is this not the case for any VPN or proxying service? No, it's not. > In fact, it could even be a security flaw if your internal domains were accessible on external VPN style endpoints? It would be, but then this is not something that happens on a network configured in the way you describe.
The root's observation is that it doesn't use the machine configured DNS. The overwhelming majority of VPNs also don't use the machine configured DNS. Maybe not "any", but if you're using a VPN you're generally going to want your DNS going over it as well.
But it is worth noting if you're on a corporate network, or if you use a DNS solution like NextDNS -- when you turn on PR those no longer play a part, at least to Safari traffic.
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> but UK residents do typically pay for the content whereas those outside the UK are unable to. In essence, what you're saying boils down to "it's already paid for, but nobody else can have it anyway". It's unreasonable and there is no need to make excuses for this behaviour.
It's generally down to the terms for content that networks (BBC in this case) buy licenses to. The IP owners don't want the networks to allow the whole world access to that content for the price that the network is willing to pay to show it to their region.
This is big money, up-front, with no need to build out a global delivery system or deal with millions of customers.
Props to Apple for the design of this service. It doesn't hit all the privacy targets that long-time personal VPN users might be looking for, and it doesn't get into the game of trying to circumvent region locked content*, but otherwise it's likely to be a solid privacy improvement for almost all users in a careful and deliberate way. I use a VPN for other reasons (downloading Ubuntu ISOs mostly) but I'll probably tu…
> I use a VPN for other reasons (downloading Ubuntu ISOs mostly). This made me smile. Good one. For context, copyright trolls recently tried to extort torrent users for downloading and sharing Ubuntu ISOs.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/fake-dmca-takedown-n...
Importantly, OpSec (the company doing this torrent-dmca-for-hire stuff) says the DMCA itself was spoofed
> OpSec Security’s DCMA notice sending program was spoofed on Wednesday, May 26, 2021, by unknown parties across multiple streaming platforms.