{"id":10685,"date":"2015-02-02T18:57:09","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T23:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=10685"},"modified":"2015-11-11T13:59:39","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T18:59:39","slug":"cloak-and-private-internet-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/02\/cloak-and-private-internet-access\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloak and Private Internet Access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dafacto.com\/2015\/02\/02\/why-i-use-both-the-cloak-and-private-internet-access-vpn-services-to-secure-my-mac-and-ios-devices\/\">Matt Henderson<\/a>:<\/p><blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.dafacto.com\/2015\/02\/02\/why-i-use-both-the-cloak-and-private-internet-access-vpn-services-to-secure-my-mac-and-ios-devices\/\"><p>The killer feature of Cloak is that it will <em>automatically<\/em> connect your device&mdash;both Mac and iOS&mdash;to the VPN whenever you connect to an untrusted wifi network. Furthermore, during that short period of time between connecting to the untrusted wifi network and when the VPN service is enabled, Cloak will block all internet traffic. (How they got all that working in iOS appears to be magic. But it works!)<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>So in conclusion, if you connect to public wifi networks, you <em>need<\/em> to use a VPN service. <a href=\"http:\/\/getcloak.com\">Cloak<\/a> provides a <em>great<\/em> user experience, and just as importantly, is designed to work even when you forget you need it. For most people, it will be the perfect solution. If you travel around enough to run into those rare situations in which Cloak has issues, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\">Private Internet Access<\/a> is a great backup alternative.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Henderson:The killer feature of Cloak is that it will automatically connect your device&mdash;both Mac and iOS&mdash;to the VPN whenever you connect to an untrusted wifi network. Furthermore, during that short period of time between connecting to the untrusted wifi network and when the VPN service is enabled, Cloak will block all internet traffic. (How [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1133,31,30,476,355,1254,1132,187],"class_list":["post-10685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-cloak","tag-ios","tag-mac","tag-networking","tag-privacy","tag-private-internet-access-pia","tag-virtual-private-network-vpn","tag-wifi"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10686,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10685\/revisions\/10686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}