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United flight forced to turn around because of a Bluetooth speaker name (www.theverge.com)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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United flight 236 from Newark to Palma de Mallorca on Saturday night was forced to turn around just an hour after takeoff due to security concerns around a Bluetooth signal. Multiple Redditors claimed to be on the flight and reported that the crew repeatedly requested passengers to turn off their Bluetooth. According to one poster, […]

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[–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

Your traffic is encrypted, but it is still possible to see what sites you are visiting without a VPN.

With a VPN, all your traffic will just be to the VPN server, and any logs of the sites you visit will sit with the VPN operator.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    This is mostly true but I'll add in some additional info.

    Both QUIC and ECH make it harder to easily track what sites are being visited. Not all websites support these but maybe some day they will be standard.

    None of this applies to messaging as the messages are being stored on a server unencrypted in most cases.

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