looks like you, @Super_[email protected], are its developer.
can you make it available through fDroid too?
this post was submitted on 16 Oct 2024
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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:
| Type | Port | IP version | Size | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DNS | 53 | IPv4 | Random >120 B | Closed (Good) |
| TLS | 443 | IPv6 | 120 B | Unreachable |
| HTTPS | 443 | IPv4 | Usually 2.4 KB | Error (Did not trust my decryption certificate) |
It sends to a random list of hosts, all of which are listed here:
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.
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
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.
Mullvad VPN has DAITA which does something similar but more legit
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.
Oooo interesting. Thanks for sharing.
It immediately crashes for me.
cool idea, unfortunately immediately crashes for me as well on Pixel 7, Android 15 beta
It looks like its a andriod port of noisy for linux. Noisy even have the same host list.
Nice idea.
Does this run 24/7? How much traffic is generated so I don't use up all my mobile data?
How is this useful?
From the repo:
A random DNS and HTTPS internet traffic noise generator provides enhanced privacy and security by obfuscating users' online activities. It generates random, non-user-initiated queries to DNS servers and encrypted HTTPS connections, making it difficult for third parties such as ISPs, surveillance systems, or malicious actors to analyze and track actual browsing patterns. This added layer of traffic noise reduces the effectiveness of traffic analysis and profiling techniques, making it harder to identify specific behaviors, websites, or services accessed by the user.
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.
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.
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 .