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Comment Re:Who trusts these VPN companies? (Score 2) 39

by schneidafunk (#64343651) Attached to: Atlas VPN To Shut Down, Transfers Paid Subscribers To NordVPN

"VPN encryption of data is redundant thanks to the use of TLS and HSTS on most web sites"
There's more to the internet than just websites...

"It's really odd for people to need a dedicated commercial provider (NordVPN) IP address to access some type of corporate resource". I agree this is probably not a typical use case for the average user, but it useful for me. For example, consulting for a company that does not want to "onboard" me fully.

Comment Re:Who trusts these VPN companies? (Score 1) 39

by schneidafunk (#64343529) Attached to: Atlas VPN To Shut Down, Transfers Paid Subscribers To NordVPN

One example - when I'm traveling overseas and need to tunnel into systems that have exemptions for my dedicated IP address.

"In 2024, I think for 99.9% of use cases No VPN is as good as VPN." I disagree, VPNs encrypt all data in transit. You don't need a dedicated IP, but any VPN will provide at least a margin of additional security.

Submission + - There's a new Loop DOS attack (thehackernews.com)

Submitted by schneidafunk
schneidafunk writes: From TFA:

A novel denial-of-service (DoS) attack vector has been found to target application-layer protocols based on User Datagram Protocol (UDP), putting hundreds of thousands of hosts likely at risk.

Called Loop DoS attacks, the approach pairs "servers of these protocols in such a way that they communicate with each other indefinitely," researchers from the CISPA Helmholtz-Center for Information Security said.

Submission + - Researcher who oversaw Flock surveillance study now questions how it was done (404media.co)

Submitted by samleecole
samleecole writes: Last month, the surveillance company Flock Safety published a study and press release claiming that its automated license plate readers (ALPR) are “instrumental in solving 10 percent of reported crime in the U.S.” The study was done by Flock employees, and given legitimacy with the “oversight” of two academic researchers whose names are also on the paper. Now, one of those researchers has told 404 Media that “I personally would have done things much differently” than the Flock researchers did.

The researcher, Johnny Nhan of Texas Christian University, said that he has pivoted future research on Flock because he found “the information that is collected by the police departments are too varied and incomplete for us to do any type of meaningful statistical analysis on them.”

Flock is one of the largest vendors of ALPR cameras and other surveillance technologies, and is partially responsible for the widespread proliferation of this technology. It markets its cameras to law enforcement, homeowners associations, property managers, schools, and businesses. It regularly publishes in-house case studies and white papers that it says shows Flock is instrumental in solving and reducing crime, then uses those studies to market its products.

Submission + - Improvements for slashdot (slashdot.org)

Submitted by schneidafunk
schneidafunk writes: I was thinking it would be nice to have AI review submissions and try to find source links instead of clicking through a few pages to get to the actual story. What other ideas do you have to improve the slashdot community?

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