# My thread about VPNs

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**Created:** [March 7, 2016, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-thread-about-vpns/748175 "2016-03-07T04:38:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2016, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-thread-about-vpns/748175/95 "2016-03-08T18:06:09Z")

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OK. I have to concede one point to you. That is that I mistakenly thought a VPN hid my IP adress. That was a mistake and I apologize to you for anything that flowed from that mistake.

But that doesn’t change the fact that you keep saying you know what I wanted to discuss and that is completely untrue. I did not want to discuss anything illegal. I did not want to discuss hiding my IP. I wanted to tell people about a good way they could protect themselves from Identity theft.

If a VPN encodes all your traffic, wouldn’t you agree it’s a good way for people to protect themselves against Identity theft?

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