Comment on Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 6 months ago
there are no ways to prevent such attacks except when the user’s VPN runs on Linux or Android.
So . . . unix? Everything-but-Windows?
Everything-but-Windows?
No. Any device that implements a certain DHCP feature is vulnerable. Linux doesn’t support it, because the feature is only useful for home computing/office workstations where Linux is rarely used. And Android doesn’t support it because it inherited the Linux network stack.
most Linux systems don’t even use DHCP
WTF are you smoking? WTF is wrong with you that you think such a dumb claim would go unscrutinized? I would play Russian roulette on the chances of a random Linux installation on a random network talking DHCP.
because most Linux systems don’t even use DHCP
This is the dumbest thing I’ve heard all day.
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freeman@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Maybe it affects BSD and MacOS.
It also can affect some Linux systems based on configuration. Android doesn’t implement the exploited standard at all and is always immune.