Starmer's Online Privacy Act came into force yesterday, driving many people to use VPN's - but who owns your VPN?Right, so Keir Starmer’s Labour government h...
Interpol went around and got everyone to blacklist their exit nodes because mullvad wouldn’t cooperate with their investigation into malware and csam using forwarded ports. A few years ago browsing with mullvad got real tough because of that. They decided to pull port forwarding rather than only be useful for running p2p malware and csam behind and everything’s back to normal except now you gotta use air or proton or something to do port forwarding.
Because proton users don’t just get the vpn, they get some kind of bundle that has a bunch of metadata which can be given up under investigation. So when interpol comes sniffing around with warrants proton can say “here’s all we have” and it’s actually something they can use instead of mullvads “here’s all we have” that’s actually nothing.
And there wasn’t a malware/csam investigation at a dead end involving proton.
The police didn’t go around to a bunch of cdns with papers to try to compel them to blacklist mullvad servers because they hate port forwarding, a dastardly computer psuedocrime only useful for disseminating malware and csam, they got cdns to blacklist mullvad in an effort to flush out nontechnical poi to their investigation. My understanding is that it worked.
Interpol went around and got everyone to blacklist their exit nodes because mullvad wouldn’t cooperate with their investigation into malware and csam using forwarded ports. A few years ago browsing with mullvad got real tough because of that. They decided to pull port forwarding rather than only be useful for running p2p malware and csam behind and everything’s back to normal except now you gotta use air or proton or something to do port forwarding.
Why can Proton do it then tho? /gen
Because proton users don’t just get the vpn, they get some kind of bundle that has a bunch of metadata which can be given up under investigation. So when interpol comes sniffing around with warrants proton can say “here’s all we have” and it’s actually something they can use instead of mullvads “here’s all we have” that’s actually nothing.
And there wasn’t a malware/csam investigation at a dead end involving proton.
The police didn’t go around to a bunch of cdns with papers to try to compel them to blacklist mullvad servers because they hate port forwarding, a dastardly computer psuedocrime only useful for disseminating malware and csam, they got cdns to blacklist mullvad in an effort to flush out nontechnical poi to their investigation. My understanding is that it worked.