Apple was leaking DNS queries and doing some funky stuff that was found by
people who run privacy projects, specifically the MISC developers who run the
silo browser disclosed this issue in August of 2026 after they investigated
some DNS leaks from a silo user.
This pretty much made it possible in some situations for your IP address while
being connected through private relay to be exposed.
What MISC really wanted to highlight here was that Apple's just not very
transparent. A lot of people have been complaining about the way they
handle disclosure and MISC's point is that yeah, Apple fixed it,
but it wasn't in the beta and Apple security release notes made no
mention of this. So this was a quiet Apple fix with absolutely no
acknowledgement of the feature, which I find a bit reckless given Apple,
you know, when you have lockdown mode, when you sell yourself on privacy
and security, which again, Apple does some things that I really do
appreciate, but if you have people whose lives and their safety depend on
these tools and they quietly fix it without communicating what they did
and what went wrong, that's a huge knock on trust for Apple.
And so I think it is a mistake long-term for Apple to not be a bit
more transparent about why it went wrong and how that's not going to
happen going forward. Cause how are they going to rebuild people's trust
in this feature? They haven't really done that in my view.