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Re: [tor-talk] Beware of insecure mobile Tor apps such as Orion/Torion

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From: Roger Dingledine <arma@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 01:44:00 -0400
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On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 11:30:44AM -0400, InterN0T wrote:
> The developer basically took Mike Tigas' iOS app and introduced several vulnerabilities to it that could be used to track users

To be clear, right now there are no ios apps that are on par with the
protections that Tor Browser provides.

You can read more about the general issue at
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-heart-onion-browser-and-more-ios-tor

tl;dr you should assume that there are proxy bypass flaws in every
single ios app that aims to be a Tor Browser replacement.

--Roger

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