In this video I discuss some of the reason why Linux is better than Windows 11 (and windows 10) which includes better security, privacy, performance, and more granular control over customizing your...
You are welcome to scan my public IP. There are bots scanning it every few seconds. If there was a vulnerability it would be exploited in the matter of a few minutes.
Also, you have no way of knowing who is behind a website. That’s why web browsers have strong security mechanisms. It is by necessity.
VPNs do very little. However, VPN companies want to keep up the fear mongering to make money.
Your IP gets exposed to others since it has a p2p feature to share the bandwidth of the video with others.
Makes sense, thanks
That’s true for a lot of services. Your IP address doesn’t really matter much. P2P is way better for performance.
What are people going to do with your IP? The worst they can do is do a Geo lookup. However it doesn’t matter.
I could scan your network for vulnerabilities.
I could anyway but knowing a target used a service like peertube increases the odds of unpatched hardware or self hosted services in my experience.
If you’re using an older router you probably have a problem due to unpatched vulnerabilities.
If you self host you might have a problem, as many package maintainers and developers lag a bit behind security patches.
A good VPN provider will also block unusual ports.
You are welcome to scan my public IP. There are bots scanning it every few seconds. If there was a vulnerability it would be exploited in the matter of a few minutes.
Also, you have no way of knowing who is behind a website. That’s why web browsers have strong security mechanisms. It is by necessity.
VPNs do very little. However, VPN companies want to keep up the fear mongering to make money.
Around 10 minutes for an unpatched XP box with no firewall.
Much longer for obscure vulnerabilities in routers or more difficult to exploit vulns in hosted software.
It is also possible for vulnerabilities in peertube itself to exist, which will be an issue regardless of VPN use.
VPN’s have zero impact on that
That depends on whether they are port blocking as I said.