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binding a socket for 18.0.0.1 to learn our interface address is freaking out users
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binding a socket for 18.0.0.1 to learn our interface address is freaking out users
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People who use little snitch on OS X are being told that their Tor mysteriously sends udp packets to 18.0.0.1 on startup.
This is false -- no packets are sent. grep for 18.0.0.1 in src/common/address.c to learn what's going on.
But the number of reports from users is increasing. I imagine they think it looks like spyware behavior -- sekrit undocumented spyware behavior, too.
We should explore other ways to learn the user's interface address that don't trigger software like little snitch.
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