- In Hotel, Airport. VPN can be used to bypass DNS based captive portal.
- Yes true hopefully all website are encrypted with ssl, but still an attacker can easily fingerprint me through my internet usage, even though everything is ssl, there are still a lot of plain-text data flying around. So yeah, ProtonVPN, ftw.
I care, and my feeling is that more people do each day as they become aware of how tracked they are. Why does anyone need to know anything about me - it feels like a violation. There are all sorts of possible costs to that, but I think many of us value privacy on its own.
But as for an attacker - maybe they discover something about you from one compromised service and correlate it to something else. Or maybe they extort you in some way. Who knows - there are many possibilities and it’s safer to reduce exposure.
- In Hotel, Airport. VPN can be used to bypass DNS based captive portal. - Yes true hopefully all website are encrypted with ssl, but still an attacker can easily fingerprint me through my internet usage, even though everything is ssl, there are still a lot of plain-text data flying around. So yeah, ProtonVPN, ftw.