We were recently made aware of multiple potential DNS leaks on Android. They stem from bugs in Android itself, and only affect certain apps. We have reported them to Google, and are working on fixes.

Read more: https://mullvad.net/blog/dns-traffic-can-leak-outside-the-vpn-tunnel-on-android

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"Depending on your threat model this might mean that you should avoid using Android altogether for anything sensitive, or employ other mitigations to prevent the leaks. We aim to partially mitigate these problems in our app, so make sure to keep the app up-to-date."

Does this affect network level tunnelling if there are Android devices on the network?

TIL Mullvad is on Nostr - cool 🫡

do he bugs affect calyx or other roms?