Timeline for Does using VPN improve security when connecting to a HTTP website?
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| Nov 19, 2016 at 23:59 | comment | added | PYT765 | "Quick edit: As noted by someone in the comments (thanks!) - any traffic to http sites will be visible to someone monitoring. So while the source of the traffic will look like the VPN server, the traffic itself could contain info to tie it back to you (e.g. names, ip addresses,...)." So how do I know if the traffic itself contains names, ip addresses etc? Is this only if I have written a name or an ip adress in the message that was sent that the traffic itself could contain such information? Or could the traffic itself give away such information without the sender writing it in the message? | |
| Nov 19, 2016 at 14:47 | comment | added | PYT765 | Edit: I found out that the vpn provider has built in SSL in the vpn server. Does this mean I am using https Even though it says http in the web browser? | |
| Nov 19, 2016 at 9:45 | comment | added | PYT765 | So what is said here means that using a VPN server is actually useless when connecting to an ordinary http site? The only part that is encrypted is from my device and on to the vpn server, and from the vpn server and on to the http site it would not make a difference whether or not I use a vpn? It is just as easy to track me whether or not I use a vpn when sending a message on an http website? | |
| Nov 19, 2016 at 9:11 | history | edited | DanteAlighieri | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 19, 2016 at 9:09 | comment | added | DanteAlighieri | Completely agree and should have clarified that. Thanks for picking up. | |
| Nov 19, 2016 at 8:34 | comment | added | Mark Ripley | "even if people (governments, etc.) are monitoring what comes out of the ExpressVPN server you connected to, they won't be able to tell that it was you that sent it." This statement is incorrect. If they monitor the VPN part of your link it is encrypted and can only identify you if they can link your IP address to you, but if they monitor the VPN's outgoing traffic, they can read everything if not to a HTTPS site, because HTTP traffic is not encrypted. So if your packets include any identifiable info (like your name), people seeing HTTP traffic past your VPN's server know who you are. | |
| Nov 19, 2016 at 1:00 | comment | added | PYT765 | Protect against what i mentioned in the original post; a hacker tracing the messages back to me. | |
| Nov 19, 2016 at 0:56 | comment | added | Xiong Chiamiov | That depends on what you're trying to protect against. | |
| Nov 19, 2016 at 0:31 | comment | added | PYT765 | So if exchange messages with someone on an ordinary http site using an ExpressVPN server I would most likely be okay? I have not created an account on the http site where messages are exchanged. No passwords or log-ins like this site here requires. The site only requires that you type in your self-chosen nickname before connecting to the server that allows us to talk. | |
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| Nov 19, 2016 at 0:06 | history | answered | DanteAlighieri | CC BY-SA 3.0 |