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Please read the article linked to by the original post, not the article linked to by another commenter. The article on The Register which was linked to says not
by nknight 15y ago
Please read the article linked to by the original post, not the article linked to by another commenter. The article on The Register which was linked to says nothing about VPNs or instant messaging clients.
- tshtf 15y agoDid you read page 2 of The Register article? Duong and Rizzo said the underlying vulnerability BEAST exploits is present in virtually all applications that use TLS 1.0, making it possible to apply the technique to monitor private communications sent through many instant messenger and Virtual Private Networking programs.
- nknight 15y agoI didn't even see there was a page 2 on the Register article, so mea culpa on that (though the parent's quote was indeed not from that page, but from one another commenter linked to).