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Originally Posted by Peterfrans
I guess because he wants to prevent the nuisance of being called by telemarketeers, preferably at dinner time or another inconvenient moment. Furthermore, by combining personal identifiable information it is easy to build a profile of who is behind the IP, and then the fun really starts.
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How would telemarketeers link your phone with you IP adress and actually do something with that information?
Pretty sure they fetch more from cookies on the pc and from people signing up to dodgy websites, mail lists, browser plugins and applications on the pc, then they could ever get from reverse lookup of tcpIP adress you use to get online.
VPN to workaround Geoblocking ,that's the primary use I can think off.
But added security.. for most people it's not going to do much securing since the #1 security problem is still the person behind the computer.
Security is a balancing act, more security = less practical. To much security means you can't do anything.
The most secure pc , well, unplug the cable, and now we are talking.
Personally i don't over think it.
Have decent passwords for important things like banking and primary email
Have different passwords for the important things
use easy junk passwords for the nonsense pages, don't use 1 for both
Have a secundary mailbox where you can assign aliasses for junk
Only use the aliasses for things like purchaces and signups on dodgy websites.
Change that alias often with a new itteration, like
svdspam1@whateverdomain.com
if the spam picks up on that mailbox, switch the alias to
svdspam2@whateverdomain.com
etc etc
Don't install to many plugins
have a good AV, that is up to date
Do not click banners on websites
Do not install dodgy pirate software
keep kids of your important computer.
keep the wife off the important computer if she's isn't savvy
Don't jump on any wifi network you find if it's a laptop, and you are traveling