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Over confidence in VPNs (kbin.melroy.org)

submitted 3 months ago by Suspiciousbrowsing@kbin.melroy.org to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I found this to be an interesting watch in layering security/ privacy rather than throwing the hail mary at a VPN and expecting it to keep you anonymous.

https://youtu.be/1opKW6X88og

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[–] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Maybe masking VPNs ? Is that even a possibility? Like how people can mask something as Chrome already.

[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 months ago

AFAIK it's the IPs of the VPN server that gets flagged in these cases. Not sure how that could be masked, it would probably basically just be using a different VPN server

[–] sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today 3 points 3 months ago

Mullvad has a few obfuscation techniques with a new one that just came out. I'm curious if they'll help in this application