I have most of the various books and I think I have the whole archive between them…it was the first comic I read every day when it ran. I had a newspaper route at one point and I loved being able to read the Sunday strip a few days before it ‘officially’ came out.
I went through some of the books about a year ago and the stuff from the 90s hits really hard today; Watterson foresaw a lot of what we’re dealing with now.
So long as you keep all of your traffic encrypted, no one’ll be able to snoop on it, though they could already see destinations/type of traffic. Anyone who controls a VPN start or end point can see anything that tcpdump can reveal.