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Re:The Internet of Compromised Things by marcusae313 on Saturday August 08, 2015 @02:17PM (#10028161)
VPN addresses a different issue not the one discussed in the article. If your router is compromised, then the encryption on the local network is useless, including that which is used to encrypt the VPN tunnel.
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Re:The Internet of Compromised Things by ikeboy on Sunday August 09, 2015 @09:27PM (#10032242)
Why? Encryption of VPN is enforced on the OS level, not the router level.
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