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It looks like its a andriod port of noisy for linux. Noisy even have the same host list.
https://github.com/1tayH/noisy
Would be great to have a docker or Linux agent version.
I would also recommend using a DNS service focused for privacy like NextDNS, adguard DNS or ID something . It makes your request anonymous .
I wish I could use more than one DNS/VPN apps at the same time, NetGuard sounds awesome but some days I want to use personalDNSfier for the ads.
How is this useful?
From the repo:
Technically, even if your data is encrypted, the amount of data you send (and the time between packets) can be analyzed to at the very least figure out what website you’re on, and who knows what else (i.e. Youtube’s HTML, CSS, and JS files will be different than Facebook’s, so the amount of data sent will be different, and you can train an AI to recognize these patterns). This app pretty much it protects you against packet analysis from your ISP or anyone else who could monitor your network. I guess this assumes that you’re using a VPN or some sort of proxy since it’s not very useful otherwise.
After getting the crash issue resolved (it is now fixed), I tested this to see how it behaves by using PCAPdroid. I also attempted to decrypt the traffic, to see what it sends.
This is the traffic analysis:
It sends to a random list of hosts, all of which are listed here:
https://4chan.org
https://www.reddit.com
https://www.yahoo.com
https://www.cnn.com
https://pornhub.com
https://www.ebay.com
https://wikipedia.org
https://youtube.com
https://github.com
https://medium.com
https://thepiratebay.org
After digging through the code, here is the file with a list of hosts. It also seems to randomly generate user agents, which is good.
The developer blocked me from opening issues on all of his projects.
Maybe you need 2FA on your GitHub account before you can do that. GitHub has made it a requirement for almost all the “dev” stuff.
now that i see that list, the app became a lot less interesting :/
i used to use a firefox addOn that had the same function, but it created noise by “clicking” on random links starting from a user defined page
Mullvad VPN has DAITA which does something similar but more legit
I was about to make a pull request to expand the list to the top 109 websites, but the developer blocked me from all interactions because I “spammed too many issues” (I opened 5 and they were all legitimate). Buggy software gets multiple bug reports, what a surprise… The software (or at least the idea) has a lot of potential, but a lot of work and care needs to be put into it.
Only two of your five issues were bug reports, one of which was not really useful - various android makes have their own optimizations that can kill the app in the background, there’s very little devs can do to stop this.
Nice idea.
Does this run 24/7? How much traffic is generated so I don’t use up all my mobile data?
looks like you, @Super_gamer46861@lemmy.world, are its developer.
can you make it available through fDroid too?
☞ https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.nemesis.mocktraffic
Is there idea to “staff” your traffic lane to make your Google komissar and your fed to work extra?
It immediately crashes for me.
cool idea, unfortunately immediately crashes for me as well on Pixel 7, Android 15 beta