@jeffw@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year agoNovel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purposearstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square133arrow-up1506cross-posted to: security@lemmy.mlprivacy@lemmy.mlprivacy@lemmy.mltechnology@lemmy.ml
arrow-up1506external-linkNovel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purposearstechnica.com@jeffw@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year agomessage-square133cross-posted to: security@lemmy.mlprivacy@lemmy.mlprivacy@lemmy.mltechnology@lemmy.ml
minus-squaredesktop_user [they/them] linkfedilinkEnglish16•1 year ago There are very little, if any, benefits to using a VPN service to browse the public internet. accessing services that are blocked in your region.
minus-squarelurch (he/him)linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agothat works, but a regular SOCKS proxy should do. for HTTP even a HTTP proxy. many VPN providers offer them too, btw… may help with mitigating this attack vector.
accessing services that are blocked in your region.
that works, but a regular SOCKS proxy should do. for HTTP even a HTTP proxy. many VPN providers offer them too, btw… may help with mitigating this attack vector.