Mullvad VPN leaks on macOS

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Heads up for Mullvad VPN users on macOS.
Affected: from 14.6 up to a recent beta 15.1

October 16, 2024

We have found that you could be leaking traffic on macOS after system updates. To our current knowledge a reboot resolves it. We are currently investigating…

The warning also provides firewall and VPN checks for issues.

Ref: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/macos-sometimes-leaks-traffic-after-system-updates

/to be continued..

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Respectfully, this is not new news. It was initially detected by ProtonVPN in March 2020.
Michael Horowitz (who is a member here at AskWoody) reported it in May 2022. It was picked up by ArsTechnica on 17 August 2022 and went viral. He scribed (and I agree) that using a VPN for security and privacy on MacOS is a scam. {If your use of a VPN is to get around GeoFencing, that works. But then, that is not fully protecting you.}
A VPN provider is in a rough spot. If it goes public with this, it may lose customers to VPN providers that say nothing.

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