jeffw@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoNovel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purposearstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square128fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10cross-posted to: security@lemmy.mlprivacy@lemmy.mltechnology@lemmy.ml
arrow-up10arrow-down1external-linkNovel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purposearstechnica.comjeffw@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square128fedilinkcross-posted to: security@lemmy.mlprivacy@lemmy.mltechnology@lemmy.ml
minus-squaredesktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 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.
minus-squarelurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months 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.