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Stephan
@stephancill
apparently lots of people use VPNs? why?
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Miguelgarest
@miguelgarest.eth
In public places and airbnbs. To add some privacy just in case. Free proton VPN and sometimes Mullvad
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Stephan
@stephancill
this is the most confusing use case to me did you know all your traffic is encrypted by default? (that's what https is for)
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@downshift.eth
can you get MITMd by an attacker who controls the LAN?
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Stephan
@stephancill
good question. i don't know the answer off the top of my head but i assume that you would be able to tell if an SSL handshake is compromised by verifying the signature chain using the certificate authorities installed on your machine?
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@downshift.eth
yeah, i’m way out of my depth here if you own DNS, you can get away with something, just not sure to what extent
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Stephan
@stephancill
I don’t think so This answer confirms that it comes down to the certificates installed on your computer https://security.stackexchange.com/a/1527
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