22 February 2021, 7:35 pm EST By ( Screenshot from Tor Browser )
Developers of the highly used privacy-focused browser known as the Brave web browser had to frantically scamper in order to fix a certain bug that actually prevented the browser from leaking certain visited Tor addresses in the DNS traffic.
The popular anonymous browser known as Brave had actually sported a Tor mode ever since 2018 in order to allow its users to visit the said .onion address on the dark web even without having to use another separate Tor browser.
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According to an article by TechRadar, an anonymous security researcher actually demonstrated that the said browser was secretly sending the queries for the supposed .onion addresses to a particular public DNS resolver for everyone to see. This basically defeats the initial purpose of using Tor i