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Apparently, the researchers contacted some VPN providers. Perhaps Proton is one of them.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

youre correct. its the local routing table that is vulnerable, which is usually handled by the OS.

I had not yet heard of any mitigation techniques from the vpn provider side. glad to know they are assisting with this OS/client failure.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I have no idea if they are assisting, it's all baseless conjecture on my part! Sorry if that wasn't clear, I thought it was