Re:Mullvad VPN: Security audit of account and payment services
by GTP on Thursday February 23, 2023 @12:36PM
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But then you're shifting your trust from your ISP to the VPN provider. So it makes sense only if you have good reasons to not trust your ISP. Personally I only use a VPN when I'm connected to a public WiFi network.
Re:Mullvad VPN: Security audit of account and payment services
by x86x87 on Thursday February 23, 2023 @02:47PM
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if your VPN provider does not know who you are it's a better than your ISP.
Re:Mullvad VPN: Security audit of account and payment services
by plaguepilled on Thursday February 23, 2023 @09:26PM
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Depending on your personal circumstances, this can be a dramatic improvement. Local ISP laws differ dramatically across countries.
VPNs won't let you evade the law, but they can reduce data footprint in certain contexts.
Re:Mullvad VPN: Security audit of account and payment services
by yencabulator on Friday February 24, 2023 @11:48AM
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Many ISPs have a track record of e.g. injecting ads in plain text HTML, in the days before ubiquitous TLS.
Meanwhile, Mullvad has no idea who bought that scratchable one-time payment coupon, and we have pretty decent faith in them not logging metadata about your tracking for later study. The Mullvad server I am connecting to is claimed to be operating 100% without persistent storage.
If you are targeted by any 3 letter agency this will not help/save you.
If you're worried about your shady ISP and/or other entities mining the heck out of your traffic and/or selling this data it helps.