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Re:VPN – Very Precarious Narrative by snazz on Monday April 08, 2019 @08:37AM (#19604607)
How would an attacker access your laptop’s filesystem if you’re connected to the same network? I can’t think of any way that would work unless your operating system is horribly misconfigured (maybe to make the entire filesystem a network drive?). And how would a VPN protect you here?
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Re:VPN – Very Precarious Narrative by chewz on Monday April 08, 2019 @09:01AM (#19604762)
Do you think every single machine/local network access is properly configured, especially with Windows? Not once I have been browsing Point-Of-Sale files in a cafe where I have been using WiFi cause someone did not separate networks. Just an example.
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Re:VPN – Very Precarious Narrative by JetSpiegel on Monday April 08, 2019 @09:30AM (#19604967)
> unless your operating system is horribly misconfigured

So, Windows with (default?) settings?

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