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Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose (arstechnica.com)
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[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 6 points 4 months ago

Linux and android unaffected, go figure. Anyway..

[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 months ago

Not quite what the article says:

When apps run on Linux there’s a setting that minimizes the effects, but even then TunnelVision can be used to exploit a side channel that can be used to de-anonymize destination traffic and perform targeted denial-of-service attacks. Network firewalls can also be configured to deny inbound and outbound traffic to and from the physical interface. This remedy is problematic for two reasons: (1) a VPN user connecting to an untrusted network has no ability to control the firewall and (2) it opens the same side channel present with the Linux mitigation.

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 3 points 4 months ago

It only works if you have split tunnel setup, which I don't think anybody does for commercial privacy VPNs

[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 months ago

Do you mean the attack only works against people with a split tunnel setup?

this post was submitted on 07 May 2024
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