Why use a VPN connection?
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Mar 15, 2026698 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I've been reading the news about Lulzsec and I was wondering why they use a VPN before connecting to Tor or proxy servers? The latter 2 can be used for hiding your identity so why is the VPN used too? I thought that was only used for connecting to business LANs etc.
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"VPN" is a generic term which includes various wildly different technologies (PPTP, L2TP, IPSEC, SSL...), whose common purpose is to access a remote network through the Internet, by creating a "tunnel" which lets a computer, or a whole network, talk…
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