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		strken 75 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breach... Can you elaborate? The metaphor is a good description of how a VPN works, if not plain old TCP/IP.

IshKebab 74 days ago [–]

IP packets have the source address in them so you can directly reply. It's not hierarchical.

strken 71 days ago | [–]

Sure, but a VPN makes it hierarchical by rewriting packets.

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