CMV: With even porn sites offering VPN, the three reasons Apple should do the same<div class="feat-image">
</div><p>There’s been some amusement as a certain well-known ‘adult entertainment’ site announced the launch of <a href="
https://venturebeat.com/2018/05/24/pornhub-launches-vpnhub-its-own-virtual-private-network-app/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">its own VPN service[/url].</p>
<p>Smutty jokes aside, there’s never been a more important time to use a <a href="
https://9to5mac.com/guides/vpn/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">VPN[/url]. Less than $100 will now buy a bad guy the equipment they need to carry out a man-in-the-middle attack – where they spoof a public WiFi hotspot and intercept the traffic. Some of these devices are even small enough to be disguised as a power plug, meaning they could be left in a coffee shop happily collecting data to be later used at leisure.</p>
<p>And the loss of net neutrality raises the prospect of ISPs offering a two-speed Internet, or even blocking sites altogether. Most are adamant that they’d never do so, but then they were equally vocal about wanting to end net neutrality, which makes no sense unless they planned to take advantage of the change …</p>
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CMV: With even porn sites offering VPN, the three reasons Apple should do the same
