Agnivo Roy

Probably you have heard about VPN or Virtual Private Network but might have never used it in practice. A VPN is a secure network across the Internet (Virtual) where the data is sent encrypted (private), makes use of the public internet infrastructure. Privacy is maintained by the use of a tunneling protocol, encryption, and other security features. Though VPN is particularly popular with organizations and corporate sector for their personnel to directly interface with the local network from anywhere in the world securely and seamlessly, it has already found other uses as well.

VPN has been well received by the common public behind restrictive content filters, firewalls, etc. allowing anonymous surfing without any blocking. In the earlier case, the employees accessed their organization’s local network from external network (internet); but here, one can login to the VPN service provider’s network from his PC and transmit/receive data over an encrypted and secure channel to browse or use any service available on the Internet. So, this is sort of a proxy with VPN service providers having servers in place routing your requests to the concerned servers on the internet. And this makes your online activities totally anonymous.

Now this is particularly useful for people who cannot surf freely due to content filtering and firewalls imposed by their ISP, school, college, organization or such. Also, sometimes you might not want to leave online tracks or surfing logs, show your IP address, or let your sensitive info come under the glare of prying eyes. So, a VPN service should be the right choice. It’s easy to use, no special application to install, very less overheads and should work from any PC. I came across BlackLogic.com offering VPN accounts for Anonymous Surfing needs.

A VPN account from BlackLogic offers the following features :

• Allows completely anonymous surfing.
• Be secure and protected even at WiFi hotspots.
• IPSEC / PPTP based VPN service. (great security)
• Keep your IP addess hidden. (their server IP is listed)
• Be anonymous behind firewalls or at school, office, home, etc.
• 128 bit strong encryption makes ISP spying attempts fruitless.
• Works for VOIP too. All VOIP carriers and providers supported.
• Makes you immune to packet sniffing, attacks and pesky popups.

What’s nice is all that starts at only $10 a month for your personal VPN account. I might be signing up soon to try the service. For more info, visit www.blacklogic.com and learn more about their services through the easily navigable website.