

A lot of the traffic gets leaked whenever the user tries to connect to their Wi-Fi source.

But as can be seen clearly, this is far from the truth of the matter. The current rules speak about how the tech giant is blocking any type of traffic that come its way using a VPN. And despite the feature for a lockdown getting activated, it’s still struggling with providing privacy. It’s a connectivity check that enables traffic to leak out intentionally outside of the VPN channel. The recently filed complaint by the Swedish firm says Google is not right about the paperwork that talks in detail about blocking connections taking place without a VPN. Moreover, all fingers are pointing toward Google to give a false description of the current VPN lockdown functionality. The fact that this is built-in functionality that they have zero knowledge about is shocking. Mullvad adds that so many Android users are truly clueless as to what is going on. Instead, Google is being accused of designing Android in that particular manner. Moreover, the traffic leak isn’t an incidental finding. Next up, you’ve got some HTTPS traffic with NTP traffic at stake too. Also read: According to Adobe's prediction, Holiday sales may go up by just 2.5% this yearįor starters, it’s the IP address for the source involved as well as the DNS lookup for various Android users.But many questioned what exactly was being leaked with this fault. Seeing both data and traffic get leaked whenever a wi-fi connection is generated is alarming, explained experts. In today’s day and age, privacy and security are two major factors that go into choosing a good VPN connection and when you don’t have either of them at hand, you can only wonder how upset a user would get.


Moreover, some people feel the decision taken is so as to put great pressure on the company to fix the matter. Keeping in mind such news, Mullvad says it was forced to issue a quick notice on the matter so users could be aware. This particular VPN service by the famous Swedish firm says it learned about the issue through a recently conducted audit which is still not published yet. So just when users thought such VPN lockdown offerings were going to be their best bet at security and privacy, here comes a report to burst their bubble. The shocking report comes thanks to Mullvad VPN which speaks regarding both of Android’s offerings, ‘Always-On VPN’ and ‘Block Connections Without VPN’, and how they were found guilty of such behavior. Whenever a user connects their devices to the Wi-Fi connection, they’re at risk of a huge disadvantage, the report adds. Just when you thought all VPNs were safe comes a new report that just might go against it.Īndroid’s ‘Always-On VPN’ is now in the spotlight after a new report speaks of a potential flaw that causes it to leak data and traffic belonging to users.
