Comment on Apple has revealed a Passwords app vulnerability that lasted for months
codenamekino@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This is the reason to use a VPN. Not to protect your identity, or to watch region-locked content, but to remove the need to blindly trust developers to always use best practice, and/or blindly trust the strangers that you share public networks with.
dan@upvote.au 3 weeks ago
You have to instead blindly trust the company that runs the VPN, though. Some of them intentionally obscure who owns the VPN service given they’re often used for things like P2P and spam.
The best VPN is one you run yourself. If you’re on an insecure network like a coffee shop, you can route traffic through a known secure network like your home or a VPS/server you rent.
codenamekino@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Absolutely true. I have a paid VPN service that hardly gets used, but I call home with Wireguard multiple times a day (usually not for the encryption, though). Most basic home routers include a VPN feature as well, and it doesn’t require much technical ability to configure beyond a quick web search for the router model and what the hell DDNS means.