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Mullvad Annouce Removal Of All Disk Infrastructure - Now RAM Only (mullvad.net)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Today we announce that we have completely removed all traces of disks being used by our VPN infrastructure!

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am not talking about amazon knowing it. Amazon offers shops for businesses, where a business directly sells goods to their customers using amazon as a transaction platform. Those shops send the goods directly to their customers (Sometimes it comes from an amazon warehouse as well tho). If the first case is true, mullvad would send me the card directly, so they would know I bought it, which makes the card obsolete in my view.

But maybe they don't send it themself and the cards are all just sitting in a big warehouse. Either way, to me it's not 100% a given that they couldn't at least in theory know who bought it.

I am just playing devils advocate here btw, I am not really concerned about it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

You are buying access to a VPN not a nuclear warhead for the black market. The link between buying a VPN card and the code used in that card to link to said vpn activity which is also pretty well protected on Mullvad is not easily discoverable. Seems like a pretty reasonable privacy gap to me.