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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don't see how this supports your point then. If "setting up proxy" means "packaging it to run on thousands user machines" then isn't there obvious and huge potential for a disastrous fuckup?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

No, because it either runs the program successfully, or it fails to launch. I don't mess with the protocol. It runs as root because it needs to set the iptables when turned on to be a "global" proxy