Re: [tor-talk] Firefox with Tor on Android?

[benjamin barber <barberb@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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 <
tortalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 âAppsâ first, and start Tor afterwards, no circuit gets
> >> built.  In the log I repeatedly see âThe connection to the SOCKS5
> >> proxy server at 127.0.0.1:10720 just failed.â
> >
> > 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 Iâm not mistaken, either the proxy should bind to 127.0.0.1 or
> Socks5Proxy in torrc.custom needs ::1.
>
> Best wishes
> Jens
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