3. Signal-Android has WebRTC in the beta channel - What does it mean?

Signal-Android has WebRTC in the beta channel - What does it mean?

[WebRTC stands for Web Real Time Communication. It's used for most web related voice, video, or file sharing capabilities. Specifically instances of communication where you are directly connecting to your peer through your browser. Some examples could be web-games that let you play tic-tac-toe with a friend. Sharing files directly through a browser to another peer. Most browsers have native support for WebRTC except for Internet Explorer and Safari. It uses encryption for all its communications, but as you've found there's a huge vulnerability.

It seems that Windows and FreeBSD are the vulnerable operating systems. I'm currently running a Debian based distro, and it does not seem to be vulnerable based on the two links you've provided.

It does not appear that you can only block the leaked IP vulnerability and use WebRTC for its intended use. ](https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/82129/what-is-webrtc-and-how-can-i-protect-myself-against-leaking-information-that-doe) Might that be just a little probematic?

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