{"id":11012,"date":"2024-05-27T17:45:42","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T17:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/?p=11012"},"modified":"2024-05-28T11:28:23","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T11:28:23","slug":"nord-vpn-my-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/nord-vpn-my-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Nord VPN, my notes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have bought\/subscribe to NordVPN and was recently taught how necessary it is. Here my notes, and links &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About Nord<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is the <a href=\"https:\/\/nordvpn.com\/\">Nord Home Page<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">W11 Startup<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I have come to the conclusion that I need to ensure the VPN starts before google drive, MS Onedrive and the Browsers, also the chat clients including Steam. This doesn&#8217;t seem so easy. I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=firefox-b-d&amp;q=how+do+you+define+the+order+of+startup+programs+on+w11\">made this query<\/a>, and one of the replies points at the registry editor, another basically suggest one writes a local autoexec batch command file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Does windows not have an equivalent to <em>systemd<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I bugged it\/RFE with Nord VPN who pointed me at <a href=\"https:\/\/support.nordvpn.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/19509682644369-NordVPN-Kill-Switch-how-does-it-work\">their page on the windows kill switch<\/a> and I then found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitbin.com\/how-to-create-an-internet-kill-switch-in-windows-11\/\">How to create an internet kill switch on W11<\/a> by Digitbin; does this do what I want? The latter points at the <em>netsh.exe<\/em> command, is this <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/win32\/winsock\/netsh-exe\">its man page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Nord&#8217;s Logo<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This is allegedly <a href=\"https:\/\/1000logos.net\/nordvpn-logo\/\">a symbol of an iceberg<\/a>, and so I found the featured image on unsplash. This page says, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>NordVPN was launched in 2012 as a project carried by a group of childhood friends led by Tom Okman. They received an all-round support from a Lithuanian seed accelerator named Tesonet. Later in May 2016, they\u2019ve released their Android app, accompanied by an IOS software a month later, a browser extension in 2017, and an Android TV app in 2018. During these years, NordVPN grew into an international solution for individual users and organizations across the world.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have bought\/subscribe to NordVPN and was recently taught how necessary it is. Here my notes, and links &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6,3,1784],"tags":[2068,911,2067,1785,107],"class_list":["post-11012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-networking","category-technology","category-w11","tag-nordvpn","tag-technology","tag-vpn","tag-w11","tag-windows"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@davelevy_eu\/112514298311988158","error":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/iceberg-anniespratt-unsplash-w1080.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11012"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11018,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11012\/revisions\/11018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}