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building in the chair

nice, I player Green Mountain Championship back in 2017 at Smuggs 🤙

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Interesting attack on VPN services.

Thoughts? nostr:npub1f6ugxyxkknket3kkdgu4k0fu74vmshawermkj8d06sz6jts9t4kslazcka

It seems to me that any cellular network should be considered a hostile network.

Researchers have devised an attack against nearly all virtual private network applications that forces them to send and receive some or all traffic outside of the encrypted tunnel designed to protect it from snooping or tampering.

TunnelVision, as the researchers have named their attack, largely negates the entire purpose and selling point of VPNs, which is to encapsulate incoming and outgoing Internet traffic in an encrypted tunnel and to cloak the user’s IP address. The researchers believe it affects all VPN applications when they’re connected to a hostile network and that there are no ways to prevent such attacks except when the user’s VPN runs on Linux or Android. They also said their attack technique may have been possible since 2002 and may already have been discovered and used in the wild since then.

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The attack works by manipulating the DHCP server that allocates IP addresses to devices trying to connect to the local network. A setting known as option 121 allows the DHCP server to override default routing rules that send VPN traffic through a local IP address that initiates the encrypted tunnel. By using option 121 to route VPN traffic through the DHCP server, the attack diverts the data to the DHCP server itself.

shout out to the Linux users

Amethyst has been snail pace slow for me the past two weeks... any ideas why? I reset to default relays and even tried turning off Oorbot for a sec, still slow :(

I like to think I'm pushing the limits of human imagination

The death of diglett

not using Olympic rings... ngmi