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18th Jun 2022, 1:21 pm | #21 | |
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Re: Forum access problem
Reply from the hosting company, I'll just post it in full rather than explaining myself:
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Although the reply mentions wp-login.php and wp-admin which are Wordpress, the same will apply to other login systems. Maybe you should find a different VPN that isn't used as extensively by hackers. Otherwise you will have to keep putting up with these issues. |
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18th Jun 2022, 2:03 pm | #22 |
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Re: Forum access problem
It may help if you use a different address pool than Melbourne. Try pretending to be in Sydney (or New York or London, it doesn't really matter.)
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18th Jun 2022, 3:30 pm | #23 | ||
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Re: Forum access problem
In a further message the hosting company said:
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18th Jun 2022, 3:52 pm | #24 |
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Re: Forum access problem
To be fair, this problem may recur with any VPN provider, and even with non VPN users with dynamic IPAs. The solution adopted by the hosting company isn't ideal. I appreciate their priority is to defend their servers though.
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19th Jun 2022, 1:27 am | #25 |
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Re: Forum access problem
Thanks for the info, knowing that it's not actual "something is faulty" problem, I can work around it.
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19th Jun 2022, 8:50 am | #26 |
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Re: Forum access problem
Mod please delete if thought inappropriate.
Some thoughts on VPN and encryption VPN’s They are useful if there is no trust between the client and the path to the VPN server, a reason large companies have their own private VPN servers. Using a Public WiFi is another possible reason for using one of the commercial VPN services. Misconceptions of using a commercial VPN provider, be aware the traffic is only encrypted up to the VPN server, after that it’s carried exactly as it it sent from the client, say encrypted with SSL (HTTPS etc) or unencrypted. Using the VPN service to hide the client IP address can be useful in some circumstances but the trust then passes to the VPN provider, they have complete access to the traffic and logs. There is no control over that information by the client, available to be sold, given away etc similar to your ISP. Other internet traffic. Most Web traffic is encrypted by SSL in some way between the client and server, it has its problems but on the whole quite robust. Email using IMAP or a Web client and server using HTTPS is encrypted, beware though that the path between email servers is generally not encrypted, unless progress as been made in that area. Full encryption between sender and receiver use something like PGP, or a commercial product of the same technology, I have never used it but can understand its need in some circumstances.
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20th Jun 2022, 11:01 pm | #27 |
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Re: Forum access problem
Now we know what's been going on, it's time to close this thread.
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