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The US National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST, defines a proxy server as “a server that services the requests of its clients by forwarding those requests to other servers.” ...

As a result, it's not surprising that there are plenty of published myths surrounding VPNs, and they keep getting repeated.

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