▲ 497 ▼ Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose (arstechnica.com) submitted 2 years ago by jeffw@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 127 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (2 children) you're replying to a verbatim quote from the article. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Railing5132@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago I was going from this: (emphasis mine) Interestingly, Android is the only operating system that fully immunizes VPN apps from the attack because it doesn't implement option 121. For all other OSes, there are no complete fixes. 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. permalink fedilink source parent [–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 2 years ago Partial context is a bitch. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Railing5132@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago I was going from this: (emphasis mine) Interestingly, Android is the only operating system that fully immunizes VPN apps from the attack because it doesn't implement option 121. For all other OSes, there are no complete fixes. 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 2 years ago Partial context is a bitch. permalink fedilink source parent