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> With TLS and it surely not mitm-ing connections, that's all it can do correct? Unless it also acts as a web-proxy, yes.
by josteink 7y ago
> With TLS and it surely not mitm-ing connections, that's all it can do correct?
Unless it also acts as a web-proxy, yes.
- winternett 7y agoIt can possibly access all your activity, contacts, microphone, and camera... Hard pass from me at the moment. :/
- rectang 7y agoIt's a start. It's good that it's open source, but that's necessary not sufficient to establish trust for something which requires such significant privileges. You also want to be able to know who the authors are, to evaluate them for trustworthiness, and to evaluate their processes to see how well hardened they are against malicious contributions.
- hosteur 7y ago> It can possibly access all your activity, contacts, microphone, and camera... Hard pass from me at the moment. :/ Camera and mic? How does it do this as a vpn? I see no requests for such things in iOS settings for the app.
- winternett 7y agoIt's an app you install on your phone. That app can use any service on the device if system permissions allow it, also, tracking and libraries or spyware can be embedded in the app itself which could potentially circumvent device security.
- jangoolie 7y agoit uses the `NetworkExtension` framework to intercept all your communications and potentially modify them. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/networkextension https://developer.apple.com/documentation/networkextension