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Another way to leak traffic on Android has been discovered

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Another way to leak traffic on Android has been discovered

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Android@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days ago

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Another way to leak traffic on Android has been discovered | Mullvad VPN

A newly discovered leak in Android allows any app to send traffic outside the VPN tunnel.

The leak involves telling Android to create a keep-alive UDP connection that is offloaded to the hardware Wi-Fi or cellular chip.

GOS fix in progress. Google has reportedly declined the bug report/bounty.

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Hypocrisy is the connection.

F-droid shows the permissions used. Google has a huge hole, on purpose, that bypasses VPNs.

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