Tip of the Day: John Dvorak’s Favorite VPN – PIA VPN

You’ve undoubtedly heard or seen many VPN ads on podcasts or YouTube influencers hocking these services as a solution to keep your data secure, especially while you travel to use a local cafe’s WiFi. Some of these features are legit, but some are overblown. John Dvorak has used many of these services and has settled on using Private Internet Access (PIA) VPN service.

John Dvorak: So this tip comes from the last show we did, where I had to move my gear over to another machine and you went on and on about how great I sounded.

Adam Curry: Yeah, you actually sounded great!

John: Well, then after the show was over and I moved stuff around, I noticed that, as great as I sounded, I was actually coming in from South America on a VPN.

Adam: Really?

John: Yeah, that’s also what I said. So I want to recommend a VPN – the one I use! I’ve done enough research on VPN’s. I don’t like the fact this VPN exists in the US, because they could be a spook operation but I’m not sure. This VPN does a fabulous job with bandwidth. If you send out a fast One Gigabit signal, it comes back faster than you’d imagine. The last show we did came in from South America. So I’m shipping my voice to South America and it’s doing a turnaround and coming back into Texas and it sounded great, as Adam said.

So this product is Private Internet Access, and this is the VPN I recommend!

A VPN comes in handy for any kind of illicit activities. It also prevents you from getting certain kinds of diseases of the net. It doesn’t prevent you from getting various malware, from what I can tell. It does do a good job of keeping you isolated.

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