Android forces us to run a WiFi hotspot. Not good. OpenVPN workaround…

3 years ago by ciferecaNinjo to c/cybersecurity

Wires are good. Wireless is not. I don’t like every iOS device & Android device that walks by my place of living to log my SSID, MAC, etc, and feed that to surveillance capitalists who I boycott. While I do take care to end my SSID with “_optout_nomap”, I don’t trust it. The phone is also leaking all kinds of info (e.g....

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Hutchpd 1 point 3 years ago

Gnirehtet provides reverse tethering for Android.

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ciferecaNinjo 1 point 3 years ago

Thanks for the tip. I overlooked it since it’s not in the F-Droid repos. Will have to give it a go.

(edit) #Gnirehtet is in my notes as requiring root. This article is apparently giving bogus info:

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