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

  • one_old_coder@piefed.socialEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Hypocrisy is the connection.

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