Comment on Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose
wreleven@lemmy.ca 6 months agoThis is the primary reason folks use VPNs - to protect themselves on public networks. I would say it’s definitely not a non-issue.
Comment on Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose
wreleven@lemmy.ca 6 months agoThis is the primary reason folks use VPNs - to protect themselves on public networks. I would say it’s definitely not a non-issue.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The thing is that in most cases you don’t need a VPN to protect yourself on a public network. The ubiquity of TLS on the internet already does a great job of that. Using a VPN on a public network for privacy and security reasons amounts to little more than the obfuscation of which sites you’re visiting, and some fallback protection against improperly configured websites. So while I agree it isn’t entirely a non-issue, it definitely isn’t as big of an issue as one might assume given the scary wording of the headline and article.