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Am I okay without a VPN on public networks if I use HTTPS? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I keep hearing on VPN ads that you have to use a VPN to not have your login information stolen. So far I have been using Cloudflare WARP to be safe enough. However, if I am using an HTTPS website, do I really need a VPN or WARP? Will an attacker on the same network as me be able to access passwords transmitted over HTTPS?

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Think of it like this

HTTPS hides what you are saying.
VPN hides who you are saying it to.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's not particularly easy to find a trustworthy VPN, but it's not particularly hard to find one you'd trust more than whatever random public wi-fi you've found while on the road. Your stock reminder that we can never trust anyone is not really useful here.

Using a good VPN is one way to sanitize the whole network environment when you have no reason to trust even the router you're connecting to, avoiding quite a few risks besides that of someone passively analyzing your traffic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

He’s not suing trust nobody. He’s saying apply the same scrutiny to your VPN provider as you would any other vendor who you only hear about in online ads.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just don’t use VPN’s that streamers push. VPN over public WiFi is a must

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

For what reason? If your doing something scketchy the VPN company is going to know about it.

If you want your DNS encrypted use encrypted DNS. If you want to be really hidden use Tor

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I'd add you can get around this with a custom DNS server with DNSSEC