[kwlug-disc] Problems in Paradise

[William Park]

Side question:

How do they know it's VPN?  The whole point of "public VPN" is to appear 
as though you're from where you come out, no?

Although, my previous use of VPN is doing the opposite, that is, to go 
into local company LAN.


On 2025-05-12 08:35, Mikalai Birukou via kwlug-disc wrote:
> Should we then say "public vpn", or "vpn for general public"?
> 
> I had an occasion of long travel to the far land. I set up my own vpn in 
> my office
> space to access banks. It worked very good. Your own vpn's are a way to go.
> 
> You give vendor an address. May be vpn should have ip closer to this 
> address, and
> not be  "general public vpn" service?
> 
> 
> On 2025-05-12 07:20, crankyoldbugger wrote:
>> A valid point, but my VPN pops out in Toronto, which isn't a very 
>> foreign country.
>>
>>
>>
>> -------- Original message --------
>> From: John Sellens <jsellens at syonex.com>
>> Date: 2025-05-11 10:50 PM (GMT-05:00)
>> To: KWLUG discussion <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>
>> Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Problems in Paradise
>>
>> I don't think it's overly unreasonable for voip.ms to want to be confident
>> what country their customers are in.
>>
>> I suspect it may help avoid credit card fraud (which is likely a challenge
>> in the VOIP provider world), and may help reduce the possibility that
>> voip.ms services get used by telephone fraudsters.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 2025/05/12 01:29:07AM +0000, CrankyOldBugger 
>> <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com> wrote:
>> | But the website wouldn't let me add funds.  Why?  Because I was using a
>> | VPN.  Outrageous, says I.  So I opened a ticket with Support, and they
>> | confirmed that you can't use a VPN on parts of their site.
>>
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