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Most public WiFi advice is six years out of date. HTTPS killed the easy attacks, but evil twin APs, captive portal MITM, and analysis still bite.
VPN encrypts everything, single-hop, fast. Tor encrypts and routes through 3+ relays, slow. Proxy is unencrypted by default. When to use each.
Turkey filters VPNs at the protocol level. Standard WireGuard and OpenVPN sessions get detected and throttled. Here's what's actually blocked, how Türk Telekom and BTK do it, and why VLESS Reality is the option that gets through.
WebRTC is a browser API for peer-to-peer connections. Pages can use it to fetch your real public IP even with a VPN running. Here's why, how to test, and how to disable it per browser.
Most VPN kill switches live in the app and react after a drop has already leaked traffic. A real kill switch fires before the handshake completes, at the kernel level. Here's the difference.
