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[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

This wouldn’t work. Your VPN would fail to connect because the attacker wouldn’t have the right encryption key. The only way to successfully mimic the VPN provider would be to be there the first time the user installed the VPN software.