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Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose (arstechnica.com)
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[–] adam_y@lemmy.world 293 points 6 months ago (16 children)

"There are no ways to prevent such attacks except when the user's VPN runs on Linux or Android."

So there are ways.

[–] Rin@lemm.ee 98 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Common Linux w

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 6 months ago

Not really, Linux is still vulnerable and there is a mitigation but it opens a side channel attack.

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