It can also be used in ways it wasn’t intended to be used. Virginia Tech has a VPN service available that students and professors need to use when they are off campus to download from VT Network Software, access online library services, or use Virginia Tech’s various research subscriptions to access academic papers. There can be legitimate non-privacy reasons to use a VPN. There would be no easy way for a website to locate where I am connecting from. If I were using Opera’s VPN service however, the websites I connect to would only see an Opera IP address located wherever in the world the Opera server hosting my VPN is located. If my IP address was 128.173.54.29, any website I connect to would see that I am connecting from the Virginia Tech campus and that I am in Blacksburg, VA. Additionally, VPN inadvertently allows users to obscure their true IP address. VPN connections are designed to be secure and encrypt all traffic whether the traffic is already secured by https or not. Opera recently released an updated version of its web browsing software with the option for free Virtual Private Network (VPN) browsing through Opera’s servers. VPN differs from traditional web browsing by routing all if the user’s traffic through an external server instead if creating a direct connection. The major advantage, and Opera’s primary reason for providing free VPN, is privacy.
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