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How To Set Up A VPN Server On Your Mac and Access Everything Remotely With An iPhone

How To Set Up A VPN Server On Your Mac and Access Everything Remotely With An iPhone

How To Set Up A VPN Server On Your Mac and Access Everything Remotely With An iPhone

by Federico Viticci

Last weekend I decided that I wanted to try to set up a VPN server on my MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard 10.6.6. What’s that? — you may ask. A Virtual Private Network (VPN) is a type of Internet connection that allows users to establish a secure connection between a computer or a mobile device and a server. The cool thing about the secure connection is that all traffic is “tunneled” through a cryptographic system that makes it almost impossible (let’s say very difficult) for hackers or people who want to take a peek at your Internet traffic to access your data. There are several implementations of VPN out there, but the main concept is that through a secure connection multiple computers and devices can stay on the same local “virtual network”.