Re:DNS traffic can leak outside the VPN tunnel on Android
by lambdaxyzw on Friday May 03, 2024 @12:49PM
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Also they actually make it easy to use their services without providing any data - you can use them by paying Monero over tor, and the only thing identifying you is a short unique "identifying number" - no emails, no names, not even an account.
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Re:DNS traffic can leak outside the VPN tunnel on Android
by yencabulator on Friday May 03, 2024 @01:24PM
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I find their gimmick of "buy a physical gift card from Amazon, scratch to reveal one-time code" to be pretty genius. It's just a bulk pile of cards, Amazon records you bought one but doesn't know which one (and the actual code is under a scratch-to-reveal surface).
Even if a three-letter agency intercepted your package and swapped your gift card with a known code, I believe Mullvad is not recording the connection between specific gift code and the account number.
You can also exchange unscratched gift cards with friends and strangers.