Why VPNs are essential regardless what others say

I tweeted during a ride on the Manchester Metrolink tram but things didn’t seem to come across as I was hoping.

My main point is the image from the mainstream media is VPNs is for pirates and the darkweb. But in actual fact its part of modern day web usage.

I was trying to tweet something but needed to look for a slide presentation which I thought I had on slideshare.net. When looking at slideshare on the metrolink wifi I got a Cisco page about content filtering.

Oh https://t.co/dOTl6FvbxU is a content problem for @Metrolink WiFi?
This is why I have a vpn… pic.twitter.com/u4M6IHLBYX

— Ian Forrester (@cubicgarden) August 23, 2017

I thought this was just because some of my slides might trigger something but nope its the whole of slideshare.net.

I was pretty annoyed about the whole thing and fired up my home VPN.

Anyone asks why you need a VPN here's why pic.twitter.com/TJdIdQkqGy

— Ian Forrester (@cubicgarden) August 23, 2017

Done…

Only took my journey from MediaCityUK to St Peters Square to do all this, hence the confused tweeting. Plus I couldn’t work out where the new Google assistant saves the screenshots.

Didn’t find what I thought I had on my slideshare but I did find it elsewhere, I’ll go into details in my next blog post.