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As an occasional mullvad customer im glad to hear.

That being said, I wonder why we arent hearing about any cases involving them and cybercrime. Letter soup agency smear campaigns or actual cybercrime.

They operate totally in the clear as opposed to Tor and other overlay networks, but unlike with Tor, there are no "opinion articles" or biased news articles slamming them as pedophile enablers.

I just find this odd. /Paranoid schizo mode off

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There was one recently involving Swedish police, I think.

I expect VPN usage is easy enough to unmask by state level actors with timing attacks.

If the VPN is hosted in America or Europe it's without a doubt logging, otherwise they would not be able to operate legally. Full Spectrum Awareness logically means VPNs should be a prime targets for the surveillance state that we're in.

What law would require an American VPN host to log the activities of their subscribers? CALEA only applies to telecoms and ISPs (legal common carriers), a VPN provider is neither.

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