Why do you need a VPN for your android?
Posted on November 27, 2012 @ 3:45 am
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Secure your Wireless Connections
Android users normally use wireless hotspots / public wi-fi, that means your traffic is open to the public and it will be easily monitored by both the persons providing the wireless access, and others on the wireless network. This makes session hijacking rather easy - as the recent FireSheep extension for Firefox demonstrates, there is even an android version called DroidSheep which hijacks web session. It listens for HTTP packets sent via a wireless (802.11) network connection and extracts the session id from these packets in order to reuse them. In other words, it's quite simple for another person to hijack your Facebook, Twitter, possibly even your email account.
An attacker which uses the same hotel wireless you are using could gather dozens of accounts in short order using this method. By using a VPN, even on a wireless connection employing no security measures, you will prevent these types of attacks.
- Hide your IP address
When you visit websites, information about you is being stored. To prevent this, you need a Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection and you need to do it now.
When you connect to our DroidVPN servers, it will mask your IP address with our server's IP address. All traffic you send and receive on the Internet passes to and from our vpn server. Your online presence is now "masked" behind our servers. If you visit a website or connect to any online web service it will only see our server's IP address and not your own IP address.
- Unblocking geographically restricted content
We have servers in US and UK countries, which will allow you to view content from websites that restrict access based on geographical location (e.g. Hulu, Comedy Central, BBC, etc.). For example, If you are currently browsing in Iran and if you connect to Hulu.com without DroidVPN, Hulu.com will determine that you are from Iran. Anyone connecting from an I.P. address that is not in the U.S. simply sees a screen that says the video is unavailable. However, if you use DroidVPN to connect to a server in USA, hulu.com will think that you are located in the USA which will then let you watch videos which is supposedly only available to users in US.
- Preventing passive traffic monitoring
All traffic passing from your computer to the Internet is easily monitored and logged by your ISP. Many ISPs bury the fact that they do this deep in their Terms of Service when you sign up. If you use DroidVPN, all traffic on your connection will be encrypted from your computer to our VPN server, and then pass to the Internet.
- Preventing bandwidth throttling / traffic shaping
A LOT of ISPs engage in traffic shaping/throttling. If you don't like the idea of your traffic being monitored and shaped, our VPN will prevent this by creating an encrypted tunnel between your computer and our VPN server.