Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-26032509-20170720031847/@comment-72.22.163.41-20170726161409

108.221.197.150 wrote: My biggest concern with the hosts method is the IP address that DMM.com hostname is being re-routed to. If you put in the IP address into your browser, you're redirected to Crystal ACG, a site/company that I'm not familiar with. (I also checked on a 3rd party IP checker that resolves the IP to a hostname.) I'm guessing they act as a proxy between you and DMM? Any info you intend to pass to DMM will also go to Crystal ACG, so with me not knowing anything about Crystal ACG, I'm inclined not to use this particular method. So I actually work in computer security, and this is the most accurate overview of the risks of editing your hosts file - it won't let hackers onto your computer, it's really not that much of a risk to your general system integrity, BUT anything you post to those sites specifically is actually going through this third-party company first. A VPN is doing much the same thing, just for all traffic, and with the ability to guarantee some forms of security in some cases (depends a lot on the VPN set-up, etc). Either way requires a certain amount of trust in the third party. I'd for sure not send any sort of payment information over either, unless it was a VPN that's been around for a while and has a really good track-record for security.