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Re:VPN leaks users’ IPs via WebRTC by th0ma5 on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @03:17PM (#16700906)
I tried some of the leak tests here, it seems to leak my NAT address not my nearest public IP? Can anyone chime in?
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Re:VPN leaks users’ IPs via WebRTC by bubblethink on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @04:28PM (#16701604)
It's not even the local ip of your home network. It's the ip of the tunnel interface. I don't know how this can be misused. It's only on firefox though. On chromium, it just shows 0.0.0.0 instead.
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Re:VPN leaks users’ IPs via WebRTC by th0ma5 on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @06:37PM (#16702669)
Yes that's exactly what I see. This seems to me to be a non-issue but perhaps other configurations and VPNs behave differently? I was using my phone into my home router with OpenVPN and it showed my VPN assigned NAT address 10.x.x.x ...
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