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Re:NordVPN confirms it was hacked by hannob on Monday October 21, 2019 @11:49AM (#21313623)
> SSL isn't really designed to protect the content of your connection anyway: due to size and timing attacks, people have deployed practical implementations of stuff like "figure out where I am looking at on Google Maps" and "figure out what movie I am watching on Netflix", and while I haven't seen a practical implementation of it yet, "learn too much about my search queries due to find-as-you-type".

A VPN won't protect you from these sidechannel attacks.

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Re:NordVPN confirms it was hacked by Dylan16807 on Monday October 21, 2019 @11:25PM (#21320123)
Not by default, but it could. Send a monolithic stream of 1500 byte packets with some padding to obfuscate transfer rates and you can really disrupt that kind of thing.
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