[phkahler]

Why is a security researcher using a Free VPN? The standard wisdom is "if its free, you're the product". So you're going to proxy all your sensitive traffic through a free thing? Its not great to trust paid services with your data, nevermind free stuff.

Sometimes knowing tech makes us think we're somehow better and can bypass high level wisdom.

[sothatsit]

They are not. They found it by searching for extensions that had the capability to exfiltrate data.

> We asked Wings, our agentic-AI risk engine, to scan for browser extensions with the capability to read and exfiltrate conversations from AI chat platforms.