• Heavybell@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    I’m under the impression https can be defeated by a man-in-the-middle attack if you’re not paying attention. Haven’t looked into it recently to be sure if that’s still the case or a solved issue, though. But that was one reason to use a VPN while on untrusted wifi, supposedly.

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      3 hours ago

      if you are using http yes, any modern website uses https, in most cases vpn will at least prevent dns hijacking (since unecrypted dns is still the default)

      • Heavybell@lemmy.world
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        2 hours ago

        No, I’m definitely talking about https. Could be this is no longer a thing tho, I need to look it up.