[guardian-dev] onion icon showing when orbot isnt actually running

Nathan of Guardian nathan at guardianproject.info
Wed Oct 9 14:21:01 EDT 2013


On 10/09/2013 02:15 PM, barbra wrote:
> 
> We are doing some testing on a martus app that relies on orbot. And we
> just had a case, in which the onion that appears in the notification bar
> when Orbot is running, was showing, even when Orbot wasn't actually
> running. This seems like a bug with security implications for the user,
> so I wanted to share this one.

Thanks. If you can reproduce that bug again, that would be great,
because it definitely should not happen. Perhaps Orbot crashed for some
reason, and left that notification hanging?

When you say "Orbot wasn't actually running" do you mean, it had been
started and the manually stopped?

+n




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