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> I'm a paying customer, yet I have never given them any PII. By nature, every VPN gets at least the IP you are connecting from and the IPs (and almost always also hostnames) you are connecting to. I'd consider that PII.
If you pay cash, and use the service the pii is 2 IP numbers?
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There is no such laws in Sweden.
That does not appear to be factual: https://www.riksdagen.se/sv/dokument-lagar/dokument/svensk-f...
Rättegångsbalken does have a provision that a prosecutor can order you to preserve information you already have saved for a maximum of 180 days (https://lagen.nu/1942:740#K27P16S1). I can't find anything about what the punishment for ignoring such an order would be, but to say a company could be forced to keep operating seems extraordinarily unfounded.
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HotPlug allows hot seizure and removal of computers from the field https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=982930 (2009) https://wiebetech.com/products/hotplug-field-kit/
I guess their OS could defend itself from something like this by actively deleting any potentially compromising customer data as soon as it loses it's connection to the internet. No idea if it does though.
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Use the VPN from a VM. You can also configure Mullvad to use socks so that it can only be accessed from Firefox (which has OS independent socks settings)
I was under the impression the socks feature no longer works, are you currently using it?
Does a search warrant detail the reason and justification for the warrant, or are you left in the dark about what all the hassle and disruption was even about?
I don't understand why go after the VPN, I think most people don't use a VPN correctly. What good is a VPN when multiple apps on your computer are phoning home? If the law has a suspect IP, couldn't they just ask google, microsoft and facebook what accounts were accessed with that IP? To use a VPN correctly wouldn't have to use a fresh OS and absolutely not login to any accounts connected to the IP you are trying to…
> To use a VPN correctly wouldn't have to use a fresh OS and absolutely not login to any accounts connected to the IP you are trying to hide? Even then fingerprinting would still present an issue, even without explicitly logging in, with most browsers. For example: https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ Also have a look at this: https://www.amiunique.org/ So you might need to have a browser that lies and presents configura…
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> Mullvad could have been, and maybe even still is, lying about how they operate Could they? Sure. Do they have anything on me? * One BTC transfer * IPs where I'm connecting from (if they are lying and storing them) * My traffic (if they are lying and storing it) * My unencrypted traffic (if they are lying and storing it) Do they have ... on me? * Email? - nope * Phone number? - nope * Credit card? - nope * My first…
Might I suggest for the future: https://vpn.sovereign.engineering You can pay a Bitcoin lightning invoice on this site and get a redeemable Mullvad voucher instantly. Extremely convenient. Since you've only done 1 BTC transaction, I assume it was a large one for lots of time. However, when your time runs out, this option is great. It's an extra layer of privacy and you don't have to wait for the transaction to settle…
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> Can bet 99.99% that Mullvad throws the envelope in the trash and just forgets about it. Better yet, they shred it: https://mullvad.net/en/help/no-logging-data-policy/#payments .
It would be better to burn those envelopes than shred them, IMO.
I’m ending out my Nord and want to switch, but man, I’m actually surprised at how fast Nord’s servers are, I can get 500mbps on non-peak times.