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Re:Mullvad: Diskless infrastructure using stboot in beta by WithinReason on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @04:52AM (#29904323)
Wouldn't the ownership of the server be easy to trace back to you?

PIA has been promising a fully audited and verifiable infrastructure in the future:

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/dont-trust-verify...

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Re:Mullvad: Diskless infrastructure using stboot in beta by pilif on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @04:58AM (#29904360)
>Wouldn't the ownership of the server be easy to trace back to you?

yes. Which is why I said that this helps to shield your traffic from other people in your current local network (think: coffee-shop) which is one use-case of a VPN.

If you need to protect your traffic from anybody but your peer (another potential use-case of a VPN if this were possible) and you even want to hide the fact that you were talking to that peer, then you're out of luck. Period.

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Re:Mullvad: Diskless infrastructure using stboot in beta by wintermutestwin on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @11:59AM (#29909423)
You are ignoring the use case of protecting my data from my ISP, who is a known bad actor that wants to sell my data and had the power to strongarm my government into legalizing that data theft.
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