Everything was going fine until I tried to explain what a VPN is and why you maybe should have and use one. To my friends at dinner.
I had to deploy my VPN this afternoon when researching transit from the Singapore Airport to Downtown.
This is what I got from Safari and Chrome. Then I realized that it was my network that was doing it.
Fire up Tunnel Bear and
Bingo! Connected.
I have never had to use my VPN to get to a website. I normally deploy it to protect me when using public wifi.
But, it is impossible to explain just what it is that a VPN does. Or how it does it. I can not explain how lightning bugs operate either.
Hello Peg,
I think that an IT person configured the asylum firewall to not allow outgoing connection to Singapore servers.
That could be a human bug, or that could be a voluntary action to “protect” the old folks against phishing based in “suspect” countries…
Best regards,
Laurent
I am thinking that they are protecting us from ourselves. I was just glad that my little VPN was able to break out of The Asylum fence.