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    3 days ago

    Water diving?

    Anyway I don’t really see Wifi as much of a privacy risk. There are way more concerning things than Wifi. For Wifi to be attacked you need very specific conditions one of those being close proximity.

    In the past you could’ve used Wifi for physical tracking when people visited a place but now MAC address randomization is a thing and modern devices do not broadcast discover frames for Wifi.














  • The Tor browser is designed to appear identical to web sites so it is harder to fingerprint. Combine that with the three hop routing and it is very hard to pin point a user. Tor also has strong anticensorship tools that can be activated with a single click. It also has Onion sites which are extremely hard to track and do not pass over the clearnet.

    VPNs are not and have never been particularly useful from a privacy perspective. You would need to trust the VPN provider which is faulty due to the fact that you have no way of knowing what the VPN provider is doing. Also your traffic still passes over the internet after it leaves the VPN provider so there still are ISPs involved. VPNs are really useful for changing your IP address and bypassing censorship. There is no other use case despite all the marketing.

    The real way to get better privacy on the internet is to use https only and to setup encrypted DNS.