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What the hell Proton! (r.nf)
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[โ€“] ripcord@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Also, any unlatched, unfirewalled vulnerabilities you have are immediately available to anyone on that local WiFi network. One thing VPNs may do is cause you to ignore requests from systems on the local network, which helps.

[โ€“] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

That's an interesting one. I know it depends on configuration, but in the run-of-the-mill case, does connecting through VPN stop local services to listen on local IPs? I know our corpo VPN kills local LAN access but I'm curious what the default for OpenVPN/Wireguard might be.