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.

  • ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.worldEnglish
    244·
    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.

    • sramder@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      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
        7·
        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.

        • sramder@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          6 months ago

          I can’t honestly say I’ve ever had much trouble with it either. No trouble receiving files at least… there wasn’t much outbound traffic, but that could just have been a lack of interest :-)

          I’m happy with Mulvad’s service and now that the initial shock and indignation is wearing off I’ll probably stick with them.

          Besides I read about their new traffic obfuscation and I’ve got to give that a try. We need proactive innovation like that, now more than ever.

      • Salix@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        5·
        6 months ago

        I personally like AirVPN. Pretty good speeds depending on the server. You can port forward and have up to 5 devices connected simultaneously. Make sure you’re using the Wireguard protocol.

        Only issue is that Eddie (their GUI) kinda sucks. Works okay on Linux, and probably same on Windows. The Android one just really sucks.

        I personally just download the wireguard configs to use.

    • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      44·
      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.

      • ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        6 months ago

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