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My use case: - In Hotel, Airport. VPN can be used to bypass DNS based captive portal. - Yes true hopefully all website are encrypted with ssl, but still an att
by pelasaco 3y ago
My use case:
- In Hotel, Airport. VPN can be used to bypass DNS based captive portal.
- Yes true hopefully all website are encrypted with ssl, but still an attacker can easily fingerprint me through my internet usage, even though everything is ssl, there are still a lot of plain-text data flying around. So yeah, ProtonVPN, ftw.
- gruez 3y ago>Yes true hopefully all website are encrypted with ssl, but still an attacker can easily fingerprint me through my internet usage So an "attacker" can figure out that you browse hacker news. Who cares?
- blackeyeblitzar 3y agoI care, and my feeling is that more people do each day as they become aware of how tracked they are. Why does anyone need to know anything about me - it feels like a violation. There are all sorts of possible costs to that, but I think many of us value privacy on its own. But as for an attacker - maybe they discover something about you from one compromised service and correlate it to something else. Or maybe they extort you in some way. Who knows - there are many possibilities and it’s safer to reduce exposure.