![]() ![]() The closer analogy would be someone sending a link to a website and somehow your IP is exposed not only to the website that was shared, but also to every other website that the shared website links to. > This isn't any different from someone sending me a link to the menu at their website and them seeing my IP hit the preview thereĪgain this is an inaccurate comparison. There is strictly more information being shared. But with the QR auto-loaded by the OS, neither you nor the first part have explicitly consented to the additional information being shared. If the restaurant adds a tracker on their page, they've consented to the 3rd party tracking from their end. If you enable link previews in a messaging app, you consented to any potential site getting your IP. The privacy implication is very different. This is something very different from, say, the website of the restaurant you downloaded the menu from knowing your IP. In this example your IP is shared with a third party "Facebook" simply because of the embedded QR code to a social page hosted by them. The behavior known doesn't indicate that, but it might result in exploitation with less human interaction if they are found. ![]() There's also the remote potential that the QR code parsing/request functionality could have vulnerabilities. Malicious site/analytics firm now has additional data point (residential IP, not obscured by VPN) to correlate against. Later, after user has disconnected from VPN their OS indexes images on the filesystem (for search purposes, or whatever, parses the QR code and requests the url contained. A twist on tracking pixels.īrowser requests, and caches image containing QR code on disk. Website, or third party analytics on a website generate unique links and embed them in QR codes hidden on the page. User attempts to browse anonymously through the use of A VPN, obscuring their residential IP. I don't know if this would be possible given the limited information currently available, but an example may be: The default filenames for the program's installer are littlesnitch-3.5.dmg, littlesnitch-3.5.1.dmg, littlesnitch-3.4.dmg, littlesnitch-3.4.1.dmg or littlesnitch-3.4.2.dmg etc. Our built-in antivirus scanned this Mac download and rated it as 100 safe. There could be privacy concerns where Apple isn't the party using the data, but has allowed a third party access unintentionally. Little Snitch 5.4.1 for Mac can be downloaded from our software library for free. ![]()
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