Is Obscured VPN safe?
Obscured VPN routes all browser traffic through a vendor-supplied HTTP proxy and answers any HTTP auth prompt with your login.
The extension sets Chrome's proxy to a server from the vendor's list, so the proxy operator sees every destination you visit. It stores your VPN email and password in plaintext in local storage and returns them to any HTTP authentication challenge, not only the proxy's. The proxy connection uses plain HTTP, so credentials and request metadata travel unencrypted to the proxy.
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Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Obscured VPN contacting. Sending data somewhere is not a finding on its own - an extension that syncs your settings has to talk to its own server - but it is where your data can go, and who else it goes to.
- staging.obscured.com
Obscured VPN sends data to staging.obscured.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.