{"id":33984,"date":"2025-06-09T07:39:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T14:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/?p=33984"},"modified":"2025-06-09T07:39:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T14:39:16","slug":"ccatp-815","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/ccatp-815\/","title":{"rendered":"CCATP #815 \u2014 Bart Busschots Clarifies VPNs and iCloud Private Relay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href =\"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/ccatp-814\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">On Chit Chat Across the Pond #814<\/a>, Adam Engst and I discussed the results of a VPN survey he conducted with the TidBITS subscribers. From there, we got into a discussion where Adam challenged the common wisdom that we need a VPN when we&#8217;re on public WiFi networks. We got a bit mired in some of the discussion, where we almost had enough knowledge to explain our positions.<\/p>\n<p>Networking is a topic on which Bart has a depth of knowledge, and he&#8217;s here to clarify some of the things we talked about.<\/p>\n<p>The recording you&#8217;re about to hear was created for the Security Bits segment on NosillaCast #1048, but I felt it was important for the Chit Chat Across the Pond audience to hear it as a follow-up to our discussion with Adam.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-33984-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nosillacast\/traffic.libsyn.com\/nosillacast\/CCATP_2025_06_08.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nosillacast\/traffic.libsyn.com\/nosillacast\/CCATP_2025_06_08.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nosillacast\/traffic.libsyn.com\/nosillacast\/CCATP_2025_06_08.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><a title=\"mp3 download\" href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nosillacast\/traffic.libsyn.com\/nosillacast\/CCATP_2025_06_08.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mp3 download<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read an unedited, auto-generated transcript with chapter marks: <a href=\"https:\/\/podfeet.com\/transcripts\/CCATP_2025_06_08.html\">CCATP_2025_06_08<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Chit Chat Across the Pond #814, Adam Engst and I discussed the results of a VPN survey he conducted with the TidBITS subscribers. From there, we got into a discussion where Adam challenged the common wisdom that we need a VPN when we&#8217;re on public WiFi networks. We got a bit mired in some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[147,172,1],"tags":[5033,111,114,142],"class_list":["post-33984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-posts","category-ccatp","category-podcasts","tag-icloud-private-relay","tag-networking","tag-privacy","tag-vpn"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ChitChatPond_V7_300px.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33985,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33984\/revisions\/33985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}