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Mullvad VPN: Introducing Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis (DAITA) (mullvad.net)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Even if you have encrypted your traffic with a VPN (or the Tor Network), advanced traffic analysis is a growing threat against your privacy. Therefore, we now introduce DAITA.

Through constant packet sizes, random background traffic and data pattern distortion we are taking the first step in our battle against sophisticated traffic analysis.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (3 children)

If only they didn't bend the knee to the five eyes and drop port forwarding

[–] [email protected] 41 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

They got rid of port forwarding to improve the reputation of their IP ranges. That makes it less likely for Mullvad users to get blocked by CDNs like Cloudflare and Akamai when visiting websites. If you want port forwarding, just use AirVPN or rent a VPS and use that. Not sure what you're talking about, but Mullvad is based in Sweden, which is not a part of the five eyes alliance. It's a part of 14 eyes, but Sweden has very strong privacy laws, Mullvad even has an entire page about privacy legislation in Sweden: https://mullvad.net/en/help/swedish-legislation

They also have a page that explains how Sweden being part of the 14 eyes alliance doesn't really affect Mullvad: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/5-9-or-14-eyes-your-vpn-actually-safe

Their office was also raided by prosecutors last year, and they weren't able to seize any customer information, because Mullvad doesn't store anything about their customers: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/mullvad-vpn-was-subject-to-a-search-warrant-customer-data-not-compromised https://mullvad.net/en/blog/update-the-swedish-authorities-answered-our-protocol-request

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

you don't even have a "real" user account with them ffs. I think if they really wanted to fuck people over they'd have introduced mandatory email linked to accounts long ago

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Yup, and you can pay using crypto or cash if you want, and you'll never need to let them know who you are, where you live, etc. All they care about is that your account number gets paid, and that's it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

You could always tunnel a publicly routable IP address over your VPN... I.e. https://tunnelbroker.net/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

5 eyes shit is dumb pop security anyway. As if the CIA can't rent colo space in Kazakhstan and market you some extra spooky VPN.