Comment on Nord VPN tv commercials are incredibly misleading
BorgDrone@lemmy.one 1 year agoYeah I don’t buy it.
Instead of tapping individual connections, you now only have to tap the traffic to/from the VPNs exit nodes. Then you correlate incoming packets with outgoing packets (e.g. based on size, timing, etc) and you know the origin of the traffic.
Bonus is that it acts as a filter, people using a VPN want to hide their traffic so you specifically want to watch those people.
m_f@midwest.social 1 year ago
If a VPN is big enough, you can’t really do that sort of correlation due to the level of traffic involved. I guess that would work for visitors to woman-inflates-a-balloon-and-sits-on-it-and-pops-…, but wouldn’t work at all for google.com