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Comment by illiac786

11 hours ago

Well there is still the small detail of them not storing any logs.

This is a massive issue in my view, it allows correlation across multiple VPNs exit nodes, but that’s it. It doesn’t allow to identify you automatically. It does significantly lower the bars for identifying you though, but the requirements are still high.

Hopefully they fix this soon.

I can’t believe this type of “let’s make it a hash or something sensitive” still happen, and at mullvad, of all places. Why not randomise it simply?

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overfeed  11 hours ago

> It does significantly lower the bars for identifying you though, but the requirements are still high

If you squint a bit, it looks a lot like a "Nobody But US" (NOBUS[1]) scheme. A few more identifying bits could tip the scale for party that has a whole host of other bits on a list of suspects, without being useful to most other people.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOBUS

  • linkregister  10 hours ago

    Then why complicate it by being publicly insecure? If Mullvad were wanting to defeat anonymity, they could simply log the traffic metadata while falsely advertising they aren't.

    Their ads on San Francisco's public transit are good.

    • hackinthebochs  9 hours ago

      Good VPNs tout the fact that they had nothing to give in response to a subpoena, or that there was nothing a law enforcement agency to find when they seized a server. For mullvad to be effective as a honey pot it needs to survive these events with its reputation in tact.

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    • raverbashing  10 hours ago

      "public insecure" JFC

      Security is always a balance. Always

      AI is showing that everything has a weak spot (wondering where are the "I don't make mistakes with C" now people are - but that's for another discussion)

      There's another commenter mentioning this makes sense because exactly it avoids them keeping information on which customer is matched to which server. You know, one of the things you don't want to log

      Could it be done better? Probably.

      Here's a better idea, logging off is 100% safe

      Meanwhile 99% of the normies will go for NordVPN