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Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose (arstechnica.com)
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[โ€“] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yikes

[โ€“] DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

That being said, it apparently does not affect Mullvad apps on any platform other than iOS (Apple does not allow fixing it on iOS). I suspect other serious VPNs are also not vulnerable outside iOS, since it is prevented by simple leak prevention mechanism.