I thought I'd seen somewhere that they're subject to search warrants. I'd that correct?
I'm still waiting for Obscura VPN to become available.
What do you use?
174 sats \ 2 replies \ @0xIlmari 26 Apr
Doesn't matter what you use. You can't trust anyone with the privacy of your identity.
Use VPNs for what they were meant for - establishing a virtual private network between machines that are a world apart so they can communicate without eavesdroppers. Examples:
- your company laptop and the rest of company infrastructure
- your mobile phone on vacation and your Bitcoin node sitting in your home network
Or for watching region-locked content on Shitflix.
For privacy, only Tor is acceptable.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @MarsIronPI 3 May
Yup. OP, why do you want a VPN? Privacy? Then use Tor.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @frostdragon 26 Apr
exactly this ^
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66 sats \ 1 reply \ @DEADBEEF 26 Apr
They were subjected to a search warrant last year but there was no customer data to hand over.
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
They’ve also since switched to a RAM only VPN infrastructure so data should never be persisted.
https://mullvad.net/en/blog/we-have-successfully-completed-our-migration-to-ram-only-vpn-infrastructure
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xIlmari 27 Apr
That's what they say officially, and you have to trust that they aren't under a gag order not to disclose that they are actually logging users' IPs.
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66 sats \ 1 reply \ @nikotsla 26 Apr
I like https://grapheneos.org/ and the feature to use Orbot (Tor) as a default and only VPN.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 26 Apr
Orbot is great. So is GrapheneOS. You can use Orbot without Graphene.
Orbot.
It allows you to route certain app's traffic through Tor even if they don't natively support tor. This is a great app to use with Nostr apps btw.
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @justin_shocknet 26 Apr
Never has been, honeypot
Good rule of thumb is not to use a VPN that advertises on billboards in Time Square
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @bellabaxter 26 Apr
It's ok as a vpn provider but I wouldn't trust their no-logs policy. I wonder how they built their reputation as a private vpn since they cannot really prove it.
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1 sat \ 8 replies \ @Hamstr 26 Apr
Umm, I think IVPN is good, they don't keep logs and accept BTC, XMR and i think USDT. They give you a cryptographic key- similarly, like nostr
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0 sats \ 7 replies \ @nikotsla 26 Apr
BTC on chain... so you need to plan to pay less fee, a LN payment could be a good feature to add from their side.
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12 sats \ 1 reply \ @petertodd 26 Apr
IVPN accepts lightning. That's why I use them over mullvad, which doesn't.
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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @sancristrader 26 Apr
You can pay with lightning for Mullvad. There are probably other intermediaries.
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0 sats \ 4 replies \ @bellabaxter 26 Apr
You can swap from LN to Monero with coinswap.click
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Hamstr 26 Apr
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @nikotsla 26 Apr
I need a monero wallet... out of my scope.
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1 sat \ 1 reply \ @bellabaxter 26 Apr
You don't. You are just paying a monero address with a LN transaction.
I find it especially practical when BTC network is congested and the merchant accepts other coins.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nikotsla 26 Apr
Indeed... It was my error, it is possible.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 26 Apr
I can’t speak to the search warrants. I do use Mullvad for mobile VPN, but I am in no way a VPN expert.
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