Technology

60021 readers

1944 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

732

What the hell Proton! (r.nf)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

259 comments fedilink hide all child comments

(page 3) 50 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 months ago (17 children)

I have a vpn for... reasons... 🏴‍☠️⚓️🏴‍☠️

load more comments (17 replies)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (9 children)

So I'm confused networking stuff has never been my strong suit, is this saying you can still be fucked on public WiFi even if you connect through a VPN?

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 months ago (10 children)

There are some attacks you are vulnerable to on public WiFi that a VPN can help with.

More generally, whoever is transporting your data knows who you are talking to. If you don’t use a VPN, your ISP and whoever owns the router know what websites you are visiting (although they don’t know the specific content). If you use a VPN, your ISP and router know you are using that VPN, but not what websites you are visiting. Now your VPN knows what websites you are visiting, but they still don’t know what the content is.

I hope that helps.

load more comments (10 replies)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

no, you can't have intercourse over the Internet.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Networking stuff IS my strong suit, and I'm confused about what points most people here, including OP, are trying to make here. Maybe I'm just not awake enough yet.

Wtf proton what? What do people think Proton is saying and what's the WTF part...?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

I don't think the confusion has anything to do with networking. I've been puzzling over this post for a few minutes now... To be honest, I think I'm just more confused.

Maybe this is some sort of AI battle of the wits or contagious stroke or something.

load more comments (1 replies)

load more comments (6 replies)

load more comments