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...
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.
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.