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What is VPN actually used for?

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I've never really understood why VPNs are used. I know it stands for Virtual Private Network, but in simple terms how does it work and what is it used for?

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It's used to allow secure remote access to a network. The second paragraph from the Wikipedia article sums it up nicely: It encapsulates data transfers between two or more networked devices which are not on the same private network so as to keep the…

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