Privacy
Enhance your Pi-vacy
A man who likes to keep himself to himself, Christian Cawley explains how to keep online activity private when using a Raspberry Pi.
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Christian Cawley has been breeding Raspberry Pis since 2012, and following the successful introduction of a Raspberry Pi 4 8GB, has recently welcomed a Raspberry Pi 5 into the family.
It’s fair to say that there is never enough tinkering to be done with a Raspberry Pi. You can upgrade the SD card, add external storage, buy a case, and with the latest models, add a cooling solution. You also have the option of a multitude of operating systems, from Raspberry Pi OS to media centres, cloud storage solutions, home servers, retrogaming platforms and pretty much anything else you can think of.
A few of these uses might lend themselves to employing a VPN. Encrypted connections via a secure server hosted by a reputable name are increasingly popular since the lockdown years initiated a workfrom-home revolution (for which, we imagine, this author must be some sort of pioneer, having started in 2011) and necessitated secure connections to work computers (and revealed just how unprepared corporate IT departments were).