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Mullvad Announce Latest Infrastructure Audit (mullvad.net)

submitted 11 months ago by leraje@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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"RoS discovered a number of new findings, and we would like to thank them for their thorough and detailed report. They stated , amongst other things that: that whilst they found some issues, that: “The Mullvad VPN relays which were the subject of this test showed a mature architecture…” and “During the test we found no logging of user activity data..”

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[–] magicalbeast69@programming.dev 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

wait when did they do that?? I used to use mullvad port forwarding to ssh to my pc :(

[–] leraje@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

A few months ago. They said that hosting companies and other providers were refusing to work with them if they continued with it as a feature.

It's just too easy to abuse by bad people using it to host very questionable content. Lots of people then moved to ivpn and then they removed it too, for the same reasons.

[–] QuazarOmega@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

So who's left of the legit ones that offers it?

[–] jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

AirVPN is good so far

[–] csfirecracker@lemmyf.uk 2 points 11 months ago

PrivateInternetAccess still supports it through most of their servers. I'm having success with them still