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[HUGE loving NEWS] Major security flaw discovered in WPA2 protocol
Steve5451²:
ah yes
K3k0m@n:
--- Quote from: RedGajin on October 16, 2017, 11:31:11 AM ---for those of you that use a vpn, use it for everything until this gets patched. for those of you that don't, start using one
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would a vpn work? not too sure how they work specifically but wouldn't info still have to be transmitted through the signal? i barely know anything about how vpns work tho
carolcat:
rip and my phone's software updates are broken so i'm kinda forgeted aren't i
phflack:
https://security.stackexchange.com/q/171356
--- Quote from: K3k0m@n on October 16, 2017, 11:52:06 AM ---would a vpn work? not too sure how they work specifically but wouldn't info still have to be transmitted through the signal? i barely know anything about how vpns work tho
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It would work the same way a normal VPN over an unsecured network does
RedGajin:
--- Quote from: carolcat on October 16, 2017, 11:52:18 AM ---rip and my phone's software updates are broken so i'm kinda forgeted aren't i
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probably, yes. lots of android users will suffer because of this.