

@CodenameDarlen If you use a VPN service, enabling this will effectively disable the VPN. If I were @fdroidorg I’d post a big fat warning on this app.
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@CodenameDarlen If you use a VPN service, enabling this will effectively disable the VPN. If I were @fdroidorg I’d post a big fat warning on this app.

@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org In the “Everything has IOT, mics & cams” category…

@thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org You see, sometimes corporations like to make jokes…

@thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org @bagder@mastodon.social I’m of a mind that this vuln keeps cropping up because its being handled at the wrong level in the stack, and maybe in the wrong way as well.
Consider what it would be like if the OS presentation layer detected this, simply by highlighting any parts of strings that don’t belong to the same language as the first (visible) character in the string.
@wbrianwhite That sounds like fraud to me.