Re: PSA: Windows Aloha browser system-wide IP leakage & dangerous design

Andy Burns wrote:
> Graham J wrote:
> 
>> Every ordinary user I know always works with apps like a browser full- 
>> screen, so losing the focus isn't a issue.
> 
> They tend to regard any explanation of how they could run apps 
> not-maximised as being "told off".
> 
>> They don't seem to have understood that Windows means having the option 
>> for more than one window open on a screen.
> 
> Dual monitors have given way to triple monitors for many users.
> 
>> What was it we had before Windows?  MS-DOS ???
> 
> Borland Sidekick?

I looked up all the reviews for Aloha VPN browser for Windows, and I
haven't found a single review that wasn't a shill, not surprisingly. 

That's pretty shocking that there isn't a single Windows Aloha real review.

Any "real review" of the VPN browser would have noted quite clearly that
every privacy tool, when it fails, should fail in the open condition only.

My original PSA warned that the VPN would randomly drop sans warning even
if the user constantly kept the mouse focus on the VPN browser window.

The latest update to the PSA revised that, in that in the current version
(4.0.19.0), the VPN stays active as long as the browser window has the
active focus, but the VPN still drops the connection within minutes, sans
warning, if the user clicks away to another window for that time period.
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