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Against the backdrop of foreign adversary surveillance threats, no US federal agency has told the public which virtual private networks meet an adequate standard of protection.
A prominent US senator has asked the National Security Agency to close that gap, requesting public guidance on VPN best practices to help secure communications from foreign intelligence collection.
The request points to a specific omission. US agencies have previously recommended VPN use but stopped short of evaluating which products in the market actually hold up.
The senator is pushing the NSA to go further, issuing guidance specific enough for the general public to act on. VPNs work by routing all of a user's internet traffic through an encrypted connection to a remote server.
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