• wreleven@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    This is the primary reason folks use VPNs - to protect themselves on public networks. I would say it’s definitely not a non-issue.

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      6 months ago

      The thing is that in most cases you don’t need a VPN to protect yourself on a public network. The ubiquity of TLS on the internet already does a great job of that. Using a VPN on a public network for privacy and security reasons amounts to little more than the obfuscation of which sites you’re visiting, and some fallback protection against improperly configured websites. So while I agree it isn’t entirely a non-issue, it definitely isn’t as big of an issue as one might assume given the scary wording of the headline and article.