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   Daniel Lakeland (dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Friday, 28-Feb-2025 08:52:08 JST Daniel Lakeland

   Oh my God, how did I not know about RethinkDNS+Firewall+VPN for Android (available on F-Droid) until now? Y'all in the #infosec community been sleeping on this stuff, keeping it all for yourself? #RethinkDNS

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 28-Feb-2025 08:52:07 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     @dlakelan

     Do enlighten us, too, please.

     What is it good for?

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     Daniel Lakeland (dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Friday, 28-Feb-2025 09:19:20 JST Daniel Lakeland

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     • HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

     @HistoPol
     It sets up a DNS resolver and a virtual VPN which causes all network connections to go through the app, and then it firewalls those connections. You can turn off internet access to certain apps, filter access to domains, IP addresses, and see logs of everything every app is doing on your phone, block FB, Meta, TickTok whatever you want. Have control over who does what on the network!

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 28-Feb-2025 09:21:41 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     @dlakelan

     Wow, impressive. Thank you for the explanation.

     I'm still new to GrapheneOS, but it does provide quite a lit of control re/ network access. Would it be an additional security layer under these circumstances, too.