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Comment by justsomehnguy

> Phone routing can't be blank

> Country does not match with the country prefix for your phone number

Fishy.

And if you check country prefix with the list of country prefixes anyway... Why do you even bother with country AND prefix?

> The Portmaster actually handles DNS itself and will show you DNS queries in the UI

Yikes. What about the DNS resolvers configured in the system? Do you hijack/overwrite them? [0] I use my own Unbound locally, how Portmaster would handle queries for NSs in the Unbound config which are unknown to the world - leak them? How about QNAME minimization? Where exactly Portmaster would send the DNS queries?

Actual kernel module on Windows so it really can do anything it wants and wouldn't be catched by the machine itself?

Yikes.

Overall, this is the product which could be useful for many users, but for me it's a hard no.

The "SPN" idea is interesting, but also raises the questions about who, where and how would control exit nodes.

[0] https://docs.safing.io/portmaster/settings#dns/nameservers says they are forwarding to Cloudflare by default. /Great/

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