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January 25, 2024 |
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Welcome to this week’s meeting of the eClub of the State of Jefferson.
I am Bob Gibson, President of the Rotary eClub of State of Jefferson. Welcome to this week’s meeting. I hope this finds you well.
The Rotary theme for January is Vocational Service. I believe one of the strengths of Rotary is the mix of professions, careers, knowledge, and experience that our members bring into the organization. This mix allows us to identify needs and develop strategies to accomplish our good work. I appreciate the knowledge and skills each of you bring to our Club.
The meeting time for our Coffee Chat is changing in two weeks. Starting February 6, the Zoom meetings will be at 12:00pm PST. The change will allow some members to attend, while not interrupting their working hours. I believe these “fellowship” meetings have been valuable. They are informal opportunities to get acquainted with our members. If it fits your schedule, I look forward to “seeing” you at the meetings.
I would encourage you to mention our Club to people who have been in Rotary and left for some reason. We are a good fit for people who travel or find the time commitment to a traditional club unworkable. I believe we can market “Rotary on your time” to increase our membership. I truly value each of you as members of our Club. With additional members, we could accomplish more.
Thank you for your interest in our Club and your commitment to “Service above Self.”
Enjoy the meeting.
If you have any questions or comments, I am available. My e-mail address is: bob@bluewaterphoto.net.
email president@StateOfJeffersonRotary.org
MEMBERSHIP FORUM
We will have a brief 15 minute presentation on tool, solutions and best practices of how clubs retain members.
This will include a discussion by the attendees on what works best in their clubs.
Updated change Date Notice ! Due to a scheduling issue we have moved the date back a week to January 23 2024 at 10:00am.
Looking forward to seeing you there!
Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82289120983
Bruce Allen, District 5110 Membership Chair, BwallenDMC5110@gmail.com
District Grant Committee meeting via Zoom
9am PST on Saturday, January 27th
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Weekly eClub "Coffee Chat" Zoom meetings
Tuesday mornings at 9:00 am PDT
The meeting time for our Coffee Chat is changing in two weeks. Starting February 6, the Zoom meetings will be at 12:00pm PST. The change will allow some members to attend, while not interrupting their working hours. I believe these “fellowship” meetings have been valuable. They are informal opportunities to get acquainted with our members. If it fits your schedule, I look forward to “seeing” you at the meetings.
Recruit Rotary Peace Fellow candidates
Districts, Rotary, and Rotaract clubs play a key role in recruiting and recommending Rotary Peace Fellow candidates. Each year, The Rotary Foundation awards fellowships to leaders in peace and development to study at one of the Rotary Peace Centers at premier universities around the world. The fellows can earn a master’s degree or a postgraduate diploma through the professional development certificate program.
The application will be open 1 February through 15 May, and the selected peace fellows will begin their studies in 2025. Find out who is eligible and how they can apply.
Help midcareer change-makers and young professionals who have peacebuilding experience apply for a fully funded Rotary Peace Fellowship. Connect with your district Rotary Peace Fellowship subcommittee chair to learn more about recruiting candidates from your communities.
Among the applicants accepted this year would be members of the first cohort at Rotary’s newest peace center, Bahçeşehir University in Istanbul, Turkey. The new center will offer a certificate program in peace and development studies for candidates who plan to focus on peacebuilding in the Middle East and North Africa region.
Since the Rotary Peace Centers program began in 2002, more than 1,700 fellows have graduated. They are now working on peace and development initiatives in more than 140 countries. Many serve as leaders in government, nongovernmental organizations, education, and research institutions, peacekeeping and law enforcement agencies, media and the arts, and international organizations such as UNICEF, the United Nations, the World Bank, and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. Follow the Rotary Peace Centers’ Facebook page for updates about peace fellows’ work.
Youth Protection Virtual Conference
If your club is involved with Rotary Youth Programs, such as Interact, RYLA, or Youth Exchange, then you know how important youth protection
February 10, 2024 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Pacific
If your club is involved with Rotary Youth Programs, such as Interact, RYLA, or Youth Exchange, then you know how important youth protection is for the youth involved,
and for your club and members. This free virtual conference will focus on available resources and best practices in the area of youth protection for Rotary youth programs.
All interested Rotary members are encouraged to attend. Register in advance at the link below:
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January is Vocational Service Month
Vocational Service calls on us to empower others by using our unique skills and expertise to address community needs and help others acquire or refine skills and advance their professional opportunities. By bringing together people from diverse professions and backgrounds, Rotary recognizes the importance of all skills and occupations. A vibrant Rotary club reflects the businesses, organizations and professions in its community, embracing diversity in experiences and perspectives.
Your professional life and vocational service go hand in hand. Rotarians have a dual responsibility: represent their occupations within their club and exemplify the ideals of Rotary in their places of work.
January is Rotary’s Vocational Service Month, a great time to start leveraging vocational service! How can you take action?
- Join a Rotarian Action Group and support service projects around the world. These autonomous groups consist of Rotarians, family members, and Rotary program participants and alumni with expertise in a particular field. Members advise and collaborate with clubs and districts on service projects. If your expertise fits one of the current 25 Action Groups, contact the groups’ leaders to get involved.
- Join or form a Rotary Fellowship related to your vocation. Rotary Fellowships are international groups of Rotarians, family members, and program participants and alumni who share a vocational or recreational interest. There are many vocationally-oriented fellowships such as: Authors and Writers, Editors and Publishers, Health Professionals, Lawyers, Photographers, Police and Law Enforcement.
- Volunteer on a service project and use your vocational skills to serve others. Think about the underlying skills that make you successful in your profession: maybe you have training in some branch of science or medicine, are handy with tools or machinery know how to start a business, have expertise managing finances, or can influence others through public speaking or writing. Use your unique set of talents to make a difference in your community.
- Share your expertise through your district resource network. If you have technical expertise in one of Rotary’s six areas of focus, or with project planning and implementation, community assessment, measurement and evaluation, or other important aspects of large scale projects grants, let your district international service chair know. Lend your skills to local clubs and help develop more impactful projects.
- Participate in a vocationally-oriented Rotary Friendship Exchange. Work with your district Rotary Friendship Exchange chair to organize an international, reciprocal exchange between two districts interested in exploring a professional field in a new cultural context. Involve young professionals, and organize activities allowing exchange participants to experience cultural immersion while exploring their field in a new environment.
- Join TRF’s Cadre of Technical Advisors The Rotary Foundation Cadre of Technical Advisers is a group of volunteer Rotarians who provide technical expertise and advice to Rotarians planning and carrying out Rotary grant projects around the world. Cadre members review, monitor, and evaluate projects and ensure grant funds are being used properly. Apply online to be considered for the Cadre.
The Vocational Service in Action handbook can help you gain a better understanding of vocational service and provide you with ideas to practice it through your service activities, in your personal life, and in your career. Download the handbook and share it with your club members.
Signs for Mines Update
My dearest Friends,
Sorry for my so long silence. I was very busy with Saint Nicholas Helpers project. You can read about it at my FB page Yulia Pavichenko. Now I am back to Kharkiv and we will continue with the Christmas gifts for children.
Our project about Warning Signs is ongoing. You can see some pictures above. We have made more than 700 signs and buy marker tapes. We hand it on to rescues and military to put in the land. Maybe you will recognize the guys who participated in our webinar.
They are very very thankful to you
Yulia Pavichenko
There are over 155,000 square miles of Ukraine covered in landmines. It will take at least seventy years to remove them. We must keep the children safe. And you can help.
For as little as $3.00 US, you can buy a sign. CLICK HERE TO MAKE A DONATION
The Rotary Club of Kharkiv Nadiya (Hope) in Ukraine and the Rotary eClub of the State of Jefferson in Oregon are working to mark the mined areas with signs. This hidden danger is killing and maiming the children.
Buying signs, something that is so simple and inexpensive, will save lives. For as little as $3.00 US, you can buy a sign. The Ukrainian military will take your sign and mark the dangerous areas. CLICK HERE TO MAKE A DONATION
Promoting peace
Rotary encourages conversations to foster understanding within and across cultures. We train adults and young leaders to prevent and mediate conflict and help refugees who have fled dangerous areas.
Fighting disease
We educate and equip communities to stop the spread of life-threatening diseases like polio, HIV/AIDS, and malaria. We improve and expand access to low-cost and free health care in developing areas.
Providing clean water, sanitation, and hygiene
We support local solutions to bring clean water, sanitation, and hygiene to more people every day. We don’t just build wells and walk away. We share our expertise with community leaders and educators to make sure our projects succeed long-term.
Saving mothers and children
Nearly 6 million children under the age of five die each year because of malnutrition, poor health care, and inadequate sanitation. We expand access to quality care, so mothers and their children can live and grow stronger.
Supporting education
More than 775 million people over the age of 15 are illiterate. Our goal is to strengthen the capacity of communities to support basic education and literacy, reduce gender disparity in education, and increase adult literacy.
Growing local economies
We carry out service projects that enhance economic and community development and create opportunities for decent and productive work for young and old. We also strengthen local entrepreneurs and community leaders, particularly women, in impoverished communities.
Protecting the environment
Rotary members are tackling environmental issues the way they always do: coming up with projects, using their connections to change policy and planning for the future.
This article was adapted from “THE SISTERHOOD: The Secret History of Women at the CIA,” by Liza Mundy. Published this week by Crown, an imprint of Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House.
In the early history of the CIA, marked by towering male figures like Allen Dulles, William Colby and William “Wild Bill” Donovan, few careers proved more remarkable — and unlikely — than that of a Southern blue blood named Eloise Randolph Page. Page anticipated the launch of Sputnik when just about everyone else was taken by surprise. She was the top female officer in the CIA’s clandestine service in the 1960s and 70s and the first woman to head a major overseas station. She was physically tiny but larger-than-life, reactionary but visionary, snobby but able to overcome patriarchal provincialism to wield unheard-of influence, at a time when the agency’s sexist culture ensured most women’s career tracks were limited to secretarial and clerk roles.
Born in 1920, Page began her intelligence career during World War II as a secretary at the Office of Strategic Services, the CIA’s precursor. She was assigned to Donovan, the OSS chief, who liked to recruit from highborn families and must have been delighted that “Eloise,” as everybody called her, came from not only one such family, but two. The Randolphs and the Pages were two of Virginia’s oldest White families, with roots that went back to the origins of the commonwealth, and to slavery. “She was a classy woman,” as one female officer put it, “who belonged somewhere on a plantation.”
She also worked with Swedish, French and Belgian counterparts to track Nazis and make sure they did not get away. Both liaison work and counterintelligence were jobs toward which women tended to be steered. Both were crucial, but not nearly as prestigious as on-the-street recruiting.
After the war — when many women were told to leave and make room for returning veterans — Page hung on, employing her wide acquaintance with scientists and academics to track technical advances and wage a central contest of the Cold War: the scientific competition with the Soviet Union. On Oct. 4, 1957, Page was serving as chief of the Scientific and Technical Operations Staff when the Soviets shocked the American public by launching the satellite Sputnik. The news media portrayed the Sputnik launch as a failure of intelligence, while members of Congress accused the CIA of being “asleep at the switch.” The actual failure was that of a male-dominated bureaucracy to listen to what a woman was trying to tell them.
According to an internal CIA study declassified in 2013, Page’s office had compiled “dozens” of reports about Soviet plans to put a satellite in space, sourced from her “high-level contacts” in the scientific community. By May 1957, the agency well knew a launch was to occur, and roughly when. “It was to be between September 20th and October 4th,” Page later stated in an interview. “We had everything else there was to know about it. We had the angle of launch, we had the date.”
But despite vigorous efforts, she could not get a gatekeeper — Jack White, head of a major committee in the Office of Scientific Intelligence — to accept what she was hearing. He dismissed the intelligence as Soviet disinformation. Page visited him to try to change his mind, warning him that “we are going to have an intelligence failure.” She bet White a case of champagne that the launch would occur, and after it did, she said, “You should have seen my office.” Full of champagne. Her office wrote a bang-up after-action report, and she received a letter from OSI saying that the information in it was “essential and indispensable.”
That Page succeeded at an agency where women were marginalized was not only because of her persistence but because she had spent enough time in backrooms to well know the darkest corners of Langley. From her time as a secretary, she accumulated her colleagues’ secrets. Of Donovan, she once said, “I had the goods on him, and I played it for all it was worth.” One case officer marveled, “She had the pictures on somebody,” — incriminating photos.
For all her apparent power, though, Page remained at a disadvantage. She exerted influence from a bureaucratic position rather than an operational posting. As she rose through the administrative hierarchy, Page gained wide say over budgets. Any baron who wanted funding for a covert operation had to get the go-ahead from Eloise. “She scared some of these men to death,” remembered Lee Coyle. “They were afraid to go into her office.”
“She was in a position like J. Edgar Hoover to make or break a person,” said an operations officer, Mike Kalogeropoulos. “She knew where the bodies were buried. She knew the real story about everything. Nobody touched her.”
In 1978, Page became the first woman sent to head a major overseas CIA station, taking over as Athens station chief. “You would have thought the world was going to end,” recalled a CIA officer working in the inspector general’s office, who heard the chatter in the halls and beyond. “The reaction was so strong; it was like, ‘Oh my gosh, how can this happen, this is a disaster, this can never be!’”
While it may have been, at least in part, a gesture toward equality or a reflection of Page’s talents and deserts — the officer who promoted her, John McMahon, was seen as well intentioned when it came to women — in Page’s own view, her appointment represented a shrewd risk-benefit analysis by male rivals who wanted her out.
Nearing 60 years old, Page was dispatched to the CIA training facility near Williamsburg, Va., known as the Farm, almost four decades after she started her career during World War II. “She was five foot one, and skinny,” recalled Kalogeropoulos, who was beginning his own career at the same time. Kalogeropoulos found himself standing at the firing range behind a woman old enough to be his mother. “She fired and the gun flew right out of her hand. She went flying into the mud.” Page got up and tried again. Kalogeropoulos was deputized to “hold her shoulders as she shot, so she wouldn’t fall backward. I’m about 200 pounds, six feet tall, I’m holding this yellow-haired woman pointing down at the firing range.”
Rather than thank him, Page, upon learning his name, remarked that his surname was too Greek, and he should change it to Kellogg.
Kalogeropoulos’s first posting was to Athens, so he ended up working for Page. She liked him, and he liked her; over sherry on Fridays, she shared her understanding of why she’d been sent abroad. The men “were trying to get rid of her,” she told him. In her former position overseeing policy, staff positions and funding, she enjoyed, they felt, too much power. The barons resented her ability to approve or reject their budget requests and disliked having to come to her and grovel.
Men at headquarters had been pressing Page for years to go overseas, she told him. She had no real desire to serve in an overseas capacity and was able to put them off, saying she had to care for her aged mother. When her mother died, however, the pressure intensified. “They said, ‘You have to go, or we’ll cashier you,’” Kalogeropoulos remembered her saying — meaning that they would find a way to ease her out altogether.
The agency’s barons offered her one of two stations: Canberra, Australia or Athens, which was more “operationally vibrant,” to put it mildly. Athens was a hard, risky assignment. Three years earlier, Athens station chief Richard Welch had been murdered by left-wing terrorists waging a guerrilla war against the right-wing Greek regime. He was succeeded by Clair George, another bigfoot chief who later would be implicated in the Iran-contra scandal and convicted of lying to Congress. “It was a horrible time in Greece,” one covert officer recalled. The top job here was not one for the faint of heart. “She picked Athens just to show them up,” said Kalogeropoulos.
The men at headquarters thought they were setting her up for failure. Greece was a patriarchal culture, and there were fewer women more conventionally feminine, and conventionally Anglo-American, than Page. She hated olive oil, detested lamb, favored sherry and cocktails over retsina or ouzo.
To everyone’s surprise, the Greeks embraced her. “They liked her because she was very nice to them,” Kalogeropoulos said.
But many aspects of her behavior were egregious. In Athens, there was a Black family who helped take care of her residence; Page required one of the children, a boy of 8 or 9, to salute anyone who entered. It was racist and objectionable in the extreme. The U.S. ambassador was appalled. Page didn’t care. She also ignored directives from headquarters if she disagreed with them.
Even as the Greeks embraced Page, some of the men in Athens Station chafed under her leadership. So they ran an operation against her, working with allies back in Langley. As a ploy, Page was summoned to headquarters to sit on a panel. During her absence, an emissary from Langley paid a visit to Athens Station. The emissary called the station’s officers in, one by one, and solicited criticism of her, assuring them he himself would replace her as chief. They said “she was inexperienced, she didn’t know squat, really trying to nail her to the wall,” Kalogeropoulos recalled.
When Page returned, she called the staff into the secure room and divided them into two groups. One group consisted of those who had ratted on her; the other, those who had not. She turned to the rats and “proceeded to tell everybody what they had said. It was supposed to be confidential, and she just — it was just incredible,” Kalogeropoulos remembered. After that, he said, two case officers left the station. “She threw them out.”
None of this made her a revolutionary. She came from the same elite background as many of the men she worked with and shared their outlook along with their tactics. A hard-line anti-communist, she was right-wing to the point of being blinkered. When the conservative Greek government fell in 1981 and socialists took over, Page “wouldn’t let us report on it.” The radio silence out of Athens Station amounted to an intelligence failure.
After three years, Page completed her tour in Athens. Upon her return, she was shunted back into desk jobs — effectively put out to pasture. She went on to serve at the Defense Intelligence Agency, but never again in operations or at Langley. In her 2002 obituary in The Washington Post, an unnamed colleague summed Page up: “She was a perfect southern lady with a core of steel.”
weekly@StateOfJeffersonRotary.org
What Dirt Does Your VPN Have on You? VPN Logging Explained
A VPN is a powerful tool for keeping your private information under wraps, but what does it mean for you if your VPN is logging your data on its network?
If you're wondering what kind of data VPNs—free or paid—collect on you, you're not alone. Why do some VPNs engage in this seemingly invasive practice, and what does it mean for your privacy? How much should you be worried? We're here to explain.
What Types of Data Do VPNs Log?
First, it's helpful to know what data a VPN may or may not log from your device, as well as what the service might do with it.
Usage Metadata
This metric can be something as innocuous (and necessary) as logging how much data you have used in a specific period—a requirement for free or paid VPNs that come with bandwidth caps on your plan. However, it can also extend to the way you use your VPN, including how often you sign in (or don't), how long you stay connected to a VPN per session, or what devices you connect from most often.
VPNs may collect the data for perfectly legitimate reasons or for more questionable practices. Legitimate uses include limiting the number of simultaneous connections users have to the network, how many IP address blocks they're requesting, or how much data they've used on the network in a particular amount of time.
Questionable, in this context, can mean anything from selling that usage metadata to third-party advertisers and marketing firms (this is especially prevalent in free options) to providing the data to law enforcement upon request. More on that specific point later.
Browsing History
Another logging policy you might object to is the tracking of browsing history and browsing data. This includes anything from URLs visited to DNS requests, and it can either be done voluntarily by the VPN company, or it may be requested by authorities; this would mean the VPN would need to start logging this activity for a user under legal duress.
However, there are a limited number of VPNs, such as Hide.me, that are incapable of logging this information due to the structure of their network. This is, of course, by design. If law enforcement does come knocking, Hide.me can refuse the request based on the fact that the network was built from scratch to make the practice effectively impossible.
Connection Logs
Connection logging can be both beneficial and potentially detrimental to VPN users. The beneficial side of connection logging comes in the form of what's known as server-level logging. This is data like bandwidth usage or dates and times of connections that are collected by the server that you're connecting to. This is most often used to help VPN engineers improve the quality of the network or to specifically target bugs or routing errors that might be slowing a particular server. This kind of logging leads to greater health of the system and ensures that you're always getting the most optimized performance from your VPN connection.
The less savory side of connection logs is what's known as user-level logging. This can include identifying factors like a connected device's originating MAC address or IP address. These two pieces of information, handed to law enforcement or accidentally leaked into the hands of hackers, could lead to the personal identification of the user connecting to the VPN network. You don't often hear about this kind of identification in connection with VPNs, but it's not unknown.
Aggregated Logs
Arguably the best kind of logging (if there is such a thing, which is a hotly debated subject among privacy enthusiasts) is what's known as aggregated logging. Aggregated logging can encompass all the types of logs mentioned above but with one important distinction: All identifying information is stripped out of the dataset and anonymized. This means that, for example, while a VPN provider may use something like your device's IP address to initially improve some portion of their service, that IP address would be deleted right afterward.
Similarly, other datasets like connection times, browser logs, or bandwidth usage might be held onto by the service to improve performance. With aggregated logs, the user metadata is anonymized so that neither employees at the VPN company nor law enforcement can identify where the data originated from.
How Do I Find Out What Data My VPN Is Logging?
Now that we know what types of data might be logged by your VPN, how do you find out whether or not your VPN is even practicing logging in the first place? The answer is both simple and complex. At the most basic level, you should (in theory) only need to go to a VPN company's terms of service, where you'll generally find a section related to its logging practices.
For example, here's a portion of what ExpressVPN has to say about its own logging practices:
"In order to maintain excellent customer support and quality of service, ExpressVPN collects certain information related to your VPN usage, as described below. This data is visible to our staff strictly on a need-to-know basis and may be shared with Service Providers for the purposes above, but are kept confidential at all times."
ExpressVPN is considered one of the more transparent VPNs when it comes to its data logging practices, as you can see in the link above. The company offers an extensive amount of information that covers just about every potential data use case. If this kind of openness were available from all VPNs, it would be easy for users to understand who is logging their data, where it ends up, and how long it's being stored (if at all).
However, this level of disclosure is not as common as you might hope. Other VPNs might only include a few lines (or less, in extreme cases) in their terms that explain whether or not they log any data, as well as what datasets they log if so.
When choosing a VPN, you'll want to pick a service that's transparent about its logging practices. ExpressVPN is a good example, and there are many other services that devote entire pages of their website to explaining in sometimes excruciating (but usually appreciated) detail exactly where your data ends up while you're connected to their network.
What Is a No-Log VPN?
For the privacy-obsessed, a no-log VPN is the gold standard in the industry. No-log VPNs like PrivadoVPN are exactly what they sound like: They store no information other than your email address and billing information. Keeping this information is standard practice; the companies use it to re-up your monthly subscription and give you access to your account.
The ultimate purists out there may want to look into using a privacy-centric email service like Proton Mail to attach to your VPN account, and also consider using an anonymous Visa debit card for payment. Many VPNs also accept cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, which is just as near to anonymous as you'll get for processing subscription fees online.
For the rest of us who just want a one-touch, turnkey solution, though, a no-log VPN is the best chance you'll get at protecting the majority of your private information while connected to a virtual private network.
Who Holds VPN Companies Accountable?
It's important to understand the international nature of many providers, as well as the lack of any standards body. Since there's no country or organization to stop them, VPN companies can define words like logs, activity, or connection information however they like in their advertising. There's no law or regulation (beyond advertising laws) that dictates what a VPN company has to mean when it says, for example, it "doesn't log your activity" on its network. Because in that sentence, the word "activity" can mean whatever the company wants it to. This can lead to some dodgy circumstances.
In 2020, for example, it was discovered that seven different no-log VPN services based in Hong Kong were anything but what they claimed. In that instance, the affected VPNs told customers they weren't logging user information when, in reality, much of their most sensitive data was stored on a server in plaintext, according to an investigation by the website VPNMentor.
If you see a company use vague or limited language in its terms of service, it could mean they're not telling the whole truth about their logging policies
Company transparency and your own research are key here. There are independent third-party auditor services like Cure53, Deloitte, KPMG, and more that perform their own evaluations of VPN services and publish reports on their findings. We recommend that before you sign up for any VPN—no-log or otherwise—you verify they've gone through an audit process with a respected institution that can verify the company's claims.
The most respected VPNs in the industry often link directly to these audit reports on their websites. This is a good sign that a company is sticking to its own advertised logging practices. For even more assurance, you can look at the audits themselves. We do! If the companies refuse to make their audits public, that's also a potentially worrying sign.
Finally, if you see a company use vague or limited language in its terms of service, it could mean they're not telling the whole truth about their logging policies in an effort to potentially mislead new or recurring customers.
Should You Be Worried About VPN Logging?
Privacy experts will always debate whether VPNs should be logging your data and, if so, how much. But unless you're committing serious levels of international cybercrime (we're talking acts that would get you on an FBI watchlist), chances are that law enforcement officers won't be knocking at your VPN company's door looking for your name and address anytime soon. Still, there’s always the possibility of unprotected data falling into the hands of bad actors. By choosing a VPN that is upfront about its logging policies, you can at least be sure that your data is used exactly as advertised by the company you're relying on to protect it.
To get started with this key privacy tool, you can read our article on the top 10 VPNs for some of the most transparent and thoroughly audited options available today. If you've already decided on a service, we have a thorough article on how to set up and use a VPN.
weekly@StateOfJeffersonRotary.org
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