Susan Bradley wrote:

The 2 Best VPN Services of 2023 | Reviews by Wirecutter (nytimes.com)

About Mullvad

Mullvad is a commercial VPN service based in Sweden (which is part of the 14 eyes). Launched in March 2009, Mullvad operates using the WireGuard and OpenVPN protocols. It also supports ShadowSocks as a bridge protocol for censorship circumvention…

* Mullvad VPN isn’t secure nor private.

Alex5723 wrote:

* Mullvad VPN isn’t secure nor private.

@ Alex5723 Correct.
Even Vpn’s based in Switzerland are easily persuaded by governments to  hand over connection meta-data (so recent history proved), and identification is not too difficult.
:⁠-⁠(

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Alex5723 wrote:

* Mullvad VPN isn’t secure nor private.

I disagree. I’ve been a Mullvad user for over six years and have never had a reason to look elsewhere.

I suggest anyone shopping for a VPN service read Mullvad’s Policies and any or all of their hundreds of Blog posts, esp those related to privacy.  Then decide.

Fred wrote:

Even Vpn’s based in Switzerland are easily persuaded by governments to hand over connection meta-data (so recent history proved), and identification is not too difficult. :⁠-⁠(

Nope. Mullvad does not have any “meta-data” to “hand over”. No customer information. No customer data. Period.

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/mullvad-vpn-was-subject-to-a-search-warrant-customer-data-not-compromised

“Since Mullvad VPN by law is not required to collect any data related to our users’ activities online – and since the pure purpose of our service is to protect users from collection of such data – it is in our interest, our customers interest, all our employees and owners’ interest to not collect any data and therefore there is no reasonable grounds to doubt that we do not collect any data about our users’ activities online.”

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/update-the-swedish-authorities-answered-our-protocol-request

unbob wrote:

Nope. Mullvad does not have any “meta-data” to “hand over”. No customer information. No customer data. Period.

So they don’t save any data. 14Eyes in doing it on their infrastructure.

If you value your privacy never connect or pass through VPN servers in 14Eyes countries.

If you value your privacy stay off the net and don’t use credit cards…

For net privacy HTTPS will keep prying eyes out of everything except what site(s) you connect to.

cheers, Paul

Alex5723 wrote:

unbob wrote:

Nope. Mullvad does not have any “meta-data” to “hand over”. No customer information. No customer data. Period.

So they don’t save any data. 14Eyes in doing it on their infrastructure.

If you value your privacy never connect or pass through VPN servers in 14Eyes countries.

Have you any idea what the Usa-NSA are doining in their wiretap facilities?

https://theintercept.com/2018/06/25/att-internet-nsa-spy-hubs/

Fred wrote:

Have you any idea what the Usa-NSA are doining in their wiretap facilities?

https://theintercept.com/2018/06/25/att-internet-nsa-spy-hubs/

Yes, I do. USA is the pillar of 14Eyes.

You never use a USA VPN.

Paul T wrote:

If you value your privacy stay off the net and don’t use credit cards…

You can keep your privacy and be (almost) safe providing you use Apple devices, Apple Pay…

Examples : iMessage Contact Key Verification

passkeys

iCloud Private Relay

Lockdown Mode….

Alex5723 wrote:

Fred wrote:

Have you any idea what the Usa-NSA are doining in their wiretap facilities?

https://theintercept.com/2018/06/25/att-internet-nsa-spy-hubs/

Yes, I do. USA is the pillar of 14Eyes.

You never use a USA VPN.

Quite right, so I never switch on my pc to keep everything safe.

Fred wrote:

Quite right, so I never switch on my pc to keep everything safe.

..and never use a phone or smartphone.

Fred wrote:

Perhaps getting rusty here, that’s very well possible who knows.
Do you have more info about (Eu) court issues etc?
I hope they will stand in this mess in Europe

Re: The proposed EU Digital Identity framework (eIDAS)

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/eu-digital-identity-framework-eidas-another-kind-of-chat-control

A warning about Tunnelbear:

The About Us page for TunnelBear has just cartoon pictures of bears. As of March 2018, TunnelBear was owned by McAfee. This despite McAfee offering their own VPN. In November 2021, McAfee agreed to sell itself to a group of Private-Equity investors (Advent International, Permira Advisers, Crosspoint Capital Partners, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, GIC Private Limited and a subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority). As a rule, things go downhill quickly when a company is owned by private equity investors.
February 3, 2023: the Tunnelbear About Us page has no information about who/what owns the company. It still has the cartoon bear pictures for each employee, along with their first name, last initial and a made-up joke of a job title. It is useless childish fluff.

From here

https://defensivecomputingchecklist.com/vpn.php