Comment on Mullvad VPN: Introducing Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis (DAITA)
thatsnothowyoudoit@lemmy.ca 6 months agoThe Option 121 attack is a concern on networks where you don’t.
Exactly where you’d want a VPN. Cafes, hotels, etc.
Comment on Mullvad VPN: Introducing Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis (DAITA)
thatsnothowyoudoit@lemmy.ca 6 months agoThe Option 121 attack is a concern on networks where you don’t.
Exactly where you’d want a VPN. Cafes, hotels, etc.
SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 6 months ago
True that. Hadn’t thought of that as it’s not my typical VPN use case.
I’m not sure what a VPN provider could do about that though, they don’t control the operating system’s networking stack. If the user or an outside process that the user decides to trust (i.e. a dhcp server) adds its own network routes, the OS will follow it and route traffic outside of the tunnel.
The defenses I see against it are: