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Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose (arstechnica.com)

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[-] desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 6 months 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.

[-] lurch@sh.itjust.works -2 points 6 months ago

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.

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