I dont access the internet without it enabled; the use of a VPN is less about hiding and more about protecting your privacy
Thank you for saying that. If he confronts me about using the VPN I will tell him exactly that. Nord seems like the best one and I think it has the switch that cuts off your internet access if it drops for some reason.
I wish you the best and hopefully something will rock your father and get to his senses
If confronted, it’s your decision, your money, your privacy, but if there is anything in place that is monitoring traffic it’s not going to flag any of yours. There are ways to block VPNs on a network but luckily for us Nord offers something called obfuscation. This has worked for me in order to bypass such blocks that a lot of hotels use.
You can also use a virtual machine, something like Debian or Lubuntu (Linux distros), to use also bypass this monitoring in the event the VPN is flagged. It’s simple enough, barely have to learn any Linux, and best of all: free
Check out VirtualBox and do a bit of research on lightweight Debian based Linux distros. Spin it up and install NordVPN. It’s like a computer in a computer, just don’t put the network adapter in bridged mode as it’ll act like another computer on his network rather than one behind it on your own virtual network.
Worth noting there are some distros that have VMs already available for use so all you do is add it to VirtualBox and start it. Kali is one, and if you see it mentioned, don’t use it. Kali is not good for what you’re trying to achieve without prior experience
At that point, he’ll see your computer but not the traffic from the VM or get notified of your VPN (if I’m not mistaken, haven’t tested myself)
Don’t show your brother til you’re on your way, odds are he’d get busted somehow lol
Ok, in that case the device will almost certainly be enrolled in a Mobile Device Management solution, which works at the OS & application layers, lower than the network itself.
It’s perfectly possible for them to get data usage reports from the mobile network provider too (including domains / sites).
A VPN will not help you here, you need to use your own device for personal use, and the company device for work only.
Yeah if he pisses me off and I have to move out because of him I want to make it clear I’m not talking to him anymore. Just because you’re related to somebody doesn’t mean they’re not toxic and it sure as hell doesn’t mean you have to keep them in your life
At that point, he’ll see your computer but not the traffic from the VM or get notified of your VPN (if I’m not mistaken, haven’t tested myself)
Actually, if a VM got assigned their own IP then that means they also got assigned a MAC address and hence most likely will appear in the device list of a router or any monitoring device. I haven’t tested it either but to me that sounds like the most likely scenerio. After all, in order for a DHCP to assigned an IP, the router has to think there is a new device on the Network. I believe you might be able to bypass this by manually setting the IP of the VM.
For what it’s worth, Ive been giving Linux From Scratch another go and ran into some issues trying to download the tarballs. I could ping but not ftp, host had Nord enabled, host netmask was 192.168.6.0/24, guest was 10.0.2.0/24. I whitelisted the guest IP with Nord and was then able to continue normally
This tells me the virtual NIC is handling DHCP and Nord is doing the DNS for that subnet.
What a router sees, I’m still unaware lol. I also did not whitelist the subnet the host was on however didn’t experience any issues from that point on. Maybe I’m wrong and all I did was expose the VM traffic to the real network, I’ll have a chance to test it today maybe
Yeah. I made a rookie mistake. I forgot you can set your own subnet in a VM and hence the virtual network will be the one that handles the DHCP.
All good, had I not just gone through that I’d be suggesting someone double NAT their VMs or something haha