jeffw@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoNovel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purposearstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square73fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squareadam_y@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months ago “There are no ways to prevent such attacks except when the user’s VPN runs on Linux or Android.” So there are ways.
minus-squaresugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months ago Android Except sometimes.
minus-squarePipedLinkBot@feddit.rocksBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoHere is an alternative Piped link(s): Except sometimes Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube. I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
minus-square/home/pineapplelover@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-25 months agoWait so the vulnerability exists on macos and iphone even though those are based on bsd (right?) Edit: and also Windows, forgot about Windows
minus-squareNatanael@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoHilariously enough, Windows users can use WSL to run a Linux VPN (but only applications running in WSL are safe if I understand the attack right)
minus-squareFridaG@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoTrue, if you neg a linux dev online enough for two years, you can make your entire infrastructure vulnerable to attack
So there are ways.
Except sometimes.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
Except sometimes
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
Common Linux w
This is the way
Wait so the vulnerability exists on macos and iphone even though those are based on bsd (right?)
Edit: and also Windows, forgot about Windows
Hilariously enough, Windows users can use WSL to run a Linux VPN (but only applications running in WSL are safe if I understand the attack right)
True, if you neg a linux dev online enough for two years, you can make your entire infrastructure vulnerable to attack