Introducing Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis (DAITA) | Mullvad VPN
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Even if you have encrypted your traffic with a VPN (or the Tor Network), advanced traffic analysis is a growing threat against your privacy. Therefore, we now introduce DAITA.

Even if you have encrypted your traffic with a VPN (or the Tor Network), advanced traffic analysis is a growing threat against your privacy. Therefore, we now introduce DAITA.

Through constant packet sizes, random background traffic and data pattern distortion we are taking the first step in our battle against sophisticated traffic analysis.

  • nivenkos@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    No port forwarding really kills the utility though - I mainly use the VPN to do port forwarding (e.g. for video games, Plex, etc.) as my ISP is shit.

    Like I’m not worried about state-level de-anonymisation, I just want to be able to share services remotely and have a minimum level of anonymity.

    • far_university1990@feddit.deEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Port forwarding removed because hosting threatened to kick mullvad out. Lot of shit hosted through that. No hosting, no vpn, so needed to remove to continue operate.

      • ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 months ago

        Port forwarding means torrents. People using a VPN to torrent likely have much more traffic, especially those that seed (which is why they want port forwarding). Not enabling port forwarding means mullvlad can operate at a higher profit to cost ratio, and less risk.

          • ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.worldEnglish
            01·
            6 months ago

            That’s what mullvlad say. It’s not necessarily the reason why they don’t offer port forwarding.

            It was always possible for them to continue allowing port forwarding. They could use separate servers for those that want port forwarding, stopping any impact port forwarding had on those customers.

              • ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                6 months ago

                There are plenty of other options in the market, including ones with port forwarding. It’s a very saturated market.

            • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              6 months ago

              You should be using a seedbox to torrent in this age. Let the company run their business, if they don’t want to be a part of the group that allows torrents, so be it.

            • sramder@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              6 months ago

              Hum… this was one of the original reasons I signed up with them. I totally missed them dropping support. I’m not mad about it because I don’t torrent much anymore, but it’s still a pretty lame excuse.

              I want all my services supporting maximum fuckery at all times as a matter of general principle.

              Any alternatives that you know of?

              • Aceticon@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                6 months ago

                Torrenting works fine with Mullvad in my personal experience, and will pretty much up to my current ISP speed limits (which is 200Mbps download).

                Can’t really guarantee you that it will be as good if you’re hosting your own seedbox over their VPN (then again if you’re doing that you should probably pay for a proper seedbox hosted elsewhere) but if you’ve downloade something and the just leave it seeding, it seems fine.