I have been trying to understand what a vpn is and how it works, so I drilled Claude Ai to get information which I put into an article. Please SME, how accurate is the explanation.
Sorry you have to leave Reddit, it’s a bit lengthy couldn’t fit it in a post.
Wrong wrong wrong. The solution to the problem was TLS/SSL/HTTPS, not vpns. Vpns are a solution for an entirely different problem
Probably best to define terms. A “VPN” could be for a consumer to get to public internet, for remote employees to get to all assets in a corporate LAN, or to connect two corporate LANs together so all assets are accessible to all devices on either LAN. The three cases have important differences.
A VPN in general is a method that connects a device to another device or network securely over a public network (the internet). A VPN uses encryption to keep the traffic going from the originating device to the end device and back secure. A VPN does this for many types of connections at the same time whereas something like TLS/SSL is doing this for a single connection, for example web traffic between your computer and your banks website.
There are many use cases and differences in capabilities and type but the above is a general and common example of a VPN.
Care to share what problem vpn solved
Wow, i have been deceived.
Back to researching, most times blogs are confusing.
Vpns solved issues of private networks, privacy, and censorship
vpns are often used by employers to allow employees to access the internal network when not at work
some vpns might have multiple users share the IP address and will display an IP address that the users do not have when accessing online information
vpns can be used to bypass website blocks by governments, employers, or schools