{"id":14332,"date":"2022-02-25T11:12:04","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T11:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=14332"},"modified":"2022-03-31T10:34:35","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T09:34:35","slug":"blogathon-25-22-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=14332","title":{"rendered":"Blogathon 25\/22: Security"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I am no longer sheltered by various know-all\/see-everything IT security umbrellas afforded me by certain Central Government departments and their agencies, I have flashed a little cash and bought some services from a reliable third party. Because why wouldn&#8217;t you take every reasonable and routine precaution to safeguard yourself, and your online and personal data?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the years I&#8217;ve been impressed with NordVPN&#8217;s products, services, and cross-border response rates. I&#8217;ve looked at a few VPN providers, and NordVPN comes either close to or at the top of the list in every category. This jury is still out on the long-term security efficacy of password managers (even though NordVPN offer that service as well) but, for now, all I want is a reliable multi-national POP VPN service with high-end point to point encryption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was watching one of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCUH6fLsV6J7WKEmf7vJKfAw\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCUH6fLsV6J7WKEmf7vJKfAw\" target=\"_blank\">Erik Aanderaa&#8217;s wave-crushingly awesome videos<\/a> yesterday evening when the Viking popped in a discount code for NordVPN services so it seemed a bit of a no-brainer. I don&#8217;t know how long the discount will be valid for, but going to <a href=\"https:\/\/nordvpn.com\/erikaanderaa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/nordvpn.com\/erikaanderaa<\/a> gets you a bit of a bargain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Right, having installed it on this here laptop and installed the NordVPN Chrome extension, I&#8217;m just off to put this software on my phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I am no longer sheltered by various know-all\/see-everything IT security umbrellas afforded me by certain Central Government departments and their agencies, I have flashed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":14333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}