It appears that the the NSA was trying to put backdoors into google play according to some recent news articles.
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Jens Lechtenboerger < [email protected]> wrote: > On 2015-05-21, at 09:27, Nathan Freitas wrote: > > > On Wed, May 20, 2015, at 03:44 PM, Jens Lechtenboerger wrote: > > > >> On 2015-05-19, Nathan Freitas wrote: > >> > >> > Have you tried the latest "Apps VPN" feature that tunnels all > >> > device traffic through Tor without root? > >> > >> I just tried that with 15.0.0-RC-3, but failed to get VPN working. > >> If I klick “Apps” first, and start Tor afterwards, no circuit gets > >> built. In the log I repeatedly see “The connection to the SOCKS5 > >> proxy server at 127.0.0.1:10720 just failed.” > > > > That is the way to do it (click Apps first, then start Tor). Make sure > > to disable all root, transparent proxying options, and also flush/remove > > all transproxy rules in the "Debug" section of Orbot settings. > > I did that, but without success. > > The logs show something like the following: > WARN The connection to the SOCKS5 proxy server at 127.0.0.1:10853 > just failed. Make sure that the proxy server is up and running. > > The mentioned socks port is open, in addition to 9050. > Port 9050 is an IPv4 socket, while 10853 is an IPv6 one. > > When I capture the traffic, on the loopback interface I see that SYN > packets to 127.0.0.1:10853 are immediately answered by RST. > Indeed, with telnet I can connect to port 10853 on ::1, but not on > 127.0.0.1 (connection refused). > > Frankly, this is entirely new to me. On my GNU/Linux PC such a > different handling of ::1 and 127.0.0.1 is not visible to me. > > If I’m not mistaken, either the proxy should bind to 127.0.0.1 or > Socks5Proxy in torrc.custom needs ::1. > > Best wishes > Jens > -- > tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] > To unsubscribe or change other settings go to > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk > -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
