Aaand not-surprised at all. Thats why i dont pay for that vpn crap. Its just paying for a powder-keg made of false-promises WAITING to go-off of a different kind.
It's pretty fucked up when the police of another nation can just seize your computers, not because you're suspected of any wrong doing, not even something that isn't a crime in your own country but because they suspect other people, from another country of committing a crime, that you couldn't possibly be aware of, using a legally purchased service which you legally provide. That's like seizing the contents of a bank vault because someone used some money they withdrew to buy drugs.
Well that's the point isn't it? If you're a VPN service that logs usage, this information can be used by the cops to track down suspects using your service, so they seize your hardware to get it. However VPNs that are actually good like Mullvad store absolutely nothing, and what little they do store (payment info I believe) cannot be tied to your service usage history in any way, because no such history exists. Then both you and the VPN service are protected from law enforcement and you can rest easy knowing a thousand glowies are quietly seething.
Bruh you do realize that is straight up illegal right? I like to imagine them going after nintendo servers and computers because a person is doing something illegal using theyre services
@@lexnight8345 you say this like you folks in the US dont give the police the aiblity ot just take anything they want regardless of merit under the umbrella of " civil forfeiture"
You know, Muta. The guise of keeping things secure under the veil of "protecting children" has been going on for decades. It's a pretty easy and typical avenue that politicians like to exploit so they can extend their power to inspect and surveil more and more. A noble idea on paper but a very tired approach for politicians to "protect" children while allowing more reach for the government.
15 years ago, The Pirate Bay (TPB), was raided by Swedish police with help from the United States. 3 years later in 2009, it was raided again, but quickly propped itself online again. As of today, that site still operates and about to enter 20th birthday in September 2023.
@@adrianmizen5070 Mullvad is in Sweden, one of the most transparent countries. I live in Sweden, everything, and I mean everything is publically available, with exceptions to medical records and things of that nature. How much money you make, how mcuh you own, if you’re in debt, where you live, who you live with, what your phone number is, companies you’re involved with, your criminal record, how many and what vehicles you own etc. You can also find almost all criminal cases and the people involved publically. Good luck with that idea
Services like this will be needed more and more for years to come as Governments around the world become increasingly Tyrannical and focused on destroying your privacy.
i had a feeling it was mullvad and i am so glad i paid for it. as an iranian i love mullvad a lot especially since it works without requiring emails and phone numbers. you dont even need the app to use it. they let you download configs for wireguard and open VPN to bypass their own client entirely. mad respect ! edit : forgot to mention that you can actually pay less then 5$ and they add the correct the amount of days based on how much you pay. that means you can pay for exactly how much VPN time you need when you use Crypto
Out of curiosity why not TOR? I've ran TOR nodes in the past and generally I get quite a few hits from Iran. It seems like a lot of trust to put in a company --- that was apparently well founded in this case.
@@grigorigahan tor is harder to use and easy to detect and completely blocked in iran at the moment. . your experience will be way worse using alot of websites with tor . constant bot prompts is one of the issues. being forced to use a specific browser is one of the other problems. and its SLOOOOW. with mullvad my speed is on par with no VPN but on tor things are so slow that watching a single youtube video can take all day. on top of that i need a system wide VPN not just the browser.
I just wanna say, good on you for sidestepping unfair censorship. I'm glad to have you on the internet at large. No government needs to know your every move.
@@ali32bit42 There is no debating the speed aspect. I'm really familar with TOR. One thing you could look into is whonix. Whonix routes all your internet traffic through a gateway VM which is only connected to the internet via TOR (read its not just the browser -- but your whole computer) You could even route that TOR traffic through your VPN or use ipsec tunneling to disguise the TOR traffic. Of course there is zero getting around TOR being slow.
i hate when lawmakers push to end privacy like this, actual competent online criminals use tor for their shenanigans and criminals dumb enough to trust their ISP or a random VPN are probably also dumb enough to sell their illegal stuff on facebook marketplace
@@Unknown_Genius governments like knowing everything about their citizens I guess, i see them remotely looking at my browser history the same as a government agent looking over my shoulder in my hecking house, so I protect myself purely because it's kinda creepy haha
@@Unknown_Genius yeah but im like a 144p mutahar and use firefox with noscript, canvasblocker and ublock. I selectively choose what javascript instances to run per website and even with javascript, canvasblocker should be randomizing most fingerprinting methods It makes browsing the web harder but it's kinda cool to see what sites do and how little you can accept without breaking the site
@@Unknown_Genius You don't know what you're talking about. I use a VPN for privacy, not accessing region locked content. It's extremely useful for my purposes.
My word... Mullvad doesn't need an ad anymore for this. Just literally show the consumers the summary of the event that just happened. Literally they got raided by police and not a trace of anything? I'm now expecting their subscription/sales to go through the roof now and in the future.
I’ve been touting Mullvad as the only VPN that isn’t a scam even before this video was made, but I’m nevertheless glad to see someone w/ a larger following bring some needed positive attention to Mullvad
Same but I have been worried about it getting too big exactly for the reason we have recently seen. Soon a law will come probably from EU to force them to log and when that does happen Mullvad gets shutdown.
I personally did a vast amount of time researching different VPN companies and after my research I decided to pay more money and go with Mullvad and stories like this makes me happy with my decision.
I've been using Mullvad for years. Just read the title and was curious, when I read Mullvad in the description my heart fucking sank. Thank god nothing was found, I'm VERY glady giving them €5 a month.
The government should wok on other things. Protecting children is the job from the children's parents and if they don't protect children's, don't know what the child do or simply don't care, then the government shouldn't act as an seperate parent with higher power to control the child.
because they are protecting children.. You can cope as much as you want but the fact is that most people who use mullvad use it for illegal purposes, most likely CP. Imagine how many pedophiles are gonna be flocking to get mullvad after this because they know they almost literally cant get caught
i've been using mullvad for months now with absolutely no issue and its so sick to see them popping up on a channel like this for the best reason possible. i read the title of the video 100% whole heartedly expecting to laugh at nord or surfshark again, then hearing "mullvad" come from muta's mouth genuinely made my heart sink. fantastic vpn, never even notice it's on until sites with cloudflare ask me to pass their bot / anti-vpn checks. no speed loss or anything, great service.
@@4CMC hmm, ive not noticed a speed loss at all across multiple devices on multiple different connections in different places (home network, friends house, work) all having unique providers and each place having fair physical distance from one another. i'd suggest trying a different server, maybe one a little closer to home for a simple performance test, and if that doesn't work it potentially could just be unlucky hardware that doesn't like their service or drivers too much. regardless though, you've found a vpn that works and that's all that matters. so long as you trust the vpn service provider with your data and wallet, and they do provide the promised service, theres no issue in what you wanna use. mullvad was a nice pick for me because i suffer extreme OCD (mostly obsessive) and struggle with intrusive thoughts, especially when browsing online or hosting game servers for friends / friends of friends, so the pure anonymity of not even making my own account felt incredibly reassuring and allows me to pretty effortlessly do what i enjoy doing online and feel safe in doing so. my bad for the essay response to 1 sentence lmao, felt compelled to get the entire train of thought out at once
@@intraurinsane yeah to be honest im not close at all to any good mullvad servers (central europe here hehexd) so this may be an issue though my oosu10+w10privacy settings may have impacted it as well. ive found my vpn basing on the same criterias that you have and that additional dollar wont hurt me if it comes to for example 10x bigger download speed
I feel bad for you guys, such a stupid law that clearly wasn't thought through at all. What dumbass thought "Ah yes, upload your ID to any dodgy porn site and risk your privacy"... that shit gonna do more harm to minors than a step sister stuck in a washing machine
You forgot to mention that it's also an open source app, meaning programmers can literally go to the source code to see what the app is actually doing, what they're storing. This is huge. I'm one of the coders who actually went to check their code. Love open source stuff!
I've been using them for a year now. Went with them specifically because of where they're based, and because they don't keep logs. Even then, I always have a bit of skepticism in my head when it comes to any VPN, but after seeing this, I see that I can put some real faith in them, so long as they don't go changing their policies.
Good rule of thumb, always assume any service you use is not worthy of trust. Just in case they do something it betray it, but of course getting something that you can trust better and has been proven to be better is the best strategy.
I definitely care about privacy. I've always been leary of UA-cam ad vpns, and now that feeling has been validated! Just signed up, paid for a year, couldn't be happier. Greetings from Sweden 😉
As an IT security specialist, regarding a privacy focused VPN, which are both Swedish, I'd recommend Mullvad and OVPN :) I have a friend of a friend who helped set up OVPN's system of running it all on RAM. Their HQ is within a military zone if i'm not mistaken and to raid such a place, you need a military grade warrant (not the same as a normal warrant) and most of the time, you WILL NOT get it. Military does not want to bother with such things and more about Swedens safety. The cops won't be able to raid it, as just explained.. so yap ;P Those two if you need something good and reliable!
If I was a country and raided a VPN company and found something i would definitly say that I found nothing, not only to get criminal off guard but also to protect the VPN company who cooperated with me.
5:09 the absolute disrespect to not only turn our flag the wrong way around but call us "Holland" on top of it as well. I would rather have a black flag and being called sprinkles at that point.
This is awesome to hear :D Mullvad gonna have a spike in users, I'm sure. I can also see the good and bad sides of this. I keep saying that VPNs are great and all, but really the truth is we all need to be focused on the bigger fight. Protecting ourselves and our privacy from the government. So keeping up with bills and laws and fighting against the ones that threaten our privacy. VPNs feel like a band aid when those things are factored in. Of course, I'm not saying don't use them, just saying to keep focused on what your government is doing by threatening your privacy.
i've been using Mullvad for roughly half a year now, i am certainly surprised they weren't able to find anything, only leads me to believe in it even more now.
its not that they didnt cave, they literally couldnt. They didnt have any data to begin with which means if the police got access to their computers they wouldn't find ANYTHING. And honestly thats the best thing any VPN service can do, just keep absolutely as little information AS POSSIBLE about your user
Oh yeah? The people who are downloading CP? You want them to have this right too? Or the people involved in disgusting organised crime? Such as human trafficking etc. Freedom comes at a cost. You decide what that cost should be. Personally I won't mind the government looking at my porn history if it means that these criminals are getting caught. You decide what's more important to you. Your meaningless rights. Or those innocents.
@@swastickpaliwal6105 That's not the best thing a VPN can do, it's the absolutely minimum requirement! If they store data it's 100% useless because that data can be gotten to by the authorities if they really want it. This is why now in addition to no logging they are using ALL RAM servers so they don't even have HDDs or SSDs to be seized.
@@ucitymetalhead yeah? Now think about it hard. If you want to actually live in society. You cannot have any of those.. and that's a fact. Thinking otherwise is throwing tantrums.
As someone living in Germany hearing how they are mostly the ones behind this is absolutely not surprising.. at this point im not sure if the regulations being enforced here on the internet usage might one day turn into China 2.0
Probably not, the rise in such requests is more likely due to police funding. Even the last East German province got their own cyber crime special unit now.
Bruh, we are not even close to that level, do not talk bullshit like that. Politics try to do some real dumb shit in law enforcement being able to look into data more easily, yes. But comparing it to a state where "the internet" is basically limited to a few state-approved websites is just dumb and miles from the truth.
@@helenwhs seems that way! They weren't really raided, just told the police to politely fuck off - and then the police had to cos of law...Maybe they knew this would be the case themselves but had to pretend to do something cos Germany asked. Look guys, we tried ;).
NordVPN was tested in court and was supposed to be the same way and then recently they came out publicly and announced that they would comply with the government which was very bad news for people wanting to keep their private information private.
You are completely stupid if you use Nord or one of the other 124 companies owned by just 5 main operators. ALL of them are inspecting your data and manipulating, then selling it on to others. Nord is banned from PayPal because of all the complaints it had, they want your credit card to compile a verified profile as they have your real details. handy for law enforcement too when put together with the logs of the data that are kept. If you think you are not having anything logged, you need to wake up. Try cancelling Nord, you will not be able to easily. Your service will probably go down after the 30day money back guarantee too, that is what cause the PayPal ban. Why would you lower your security by allowing data to be given to a company operating where no data protection applies and no consumer law applies? Why would you pay to lower your privacy? Your data is more secure with your ISP than most VPNs. People are stupid when they are asked why they need a VPN, they give daft answers they heard on TV or saw in a video that is from someone paid 40% commission to get them onboard. 90% if users DO NOT need a VPN, they serve absolutely no purpose and give no protection.
I always through that the "no logs policy" on VPNs was bullshit, those sponsors are everything but honest at least there is one VPN that doesn't log every single thing you do
It is on most VPNs, they ALL log your connection and device ID in order to control the connection to the service and billing. So they know which phones and PCs are associated with your account and the IP numbers used by your account. How do people think they control the "5 connections" business. That might only be stored for a short time, but it is enough to link someone to a crime if they were so minded. Most equipment is rented in datacenters, so the VPN company has no real control over the law enforcement in that country. In the UK the VPN companies have no way of stopping the host inspecting and storing all VPN data, and it will not be encrypted when they do that. It's a big word game, companies are good at telling you what you want to hear to get a sale. Like those awful affiliate channels. One was advertising WeVPN to get commission, they never paid him as it was probably a front for law enforcement. The company shut down a few months ago, once the experiment was over! A 2 year funded experiment to collect all the data and see what people were up to. What you will find soon is that the next Encrochat scandal will be a VPN company being compromised and a lot of people in a panic.
@@diseasedworm9209 $4/month if you pay with a privacy focused way (monero, cash per letter) bitcoin, litecoin, Eth, etc. transactions can be seen by everyone publicly (which address sent how much money to which destination address) while this isn't possible with Monero.
I love that you cover VPNs as a double edged sword, most people just sing it praise and refuse to accept that there are legitimate reasons for law enforcement to want eyes in such services.
I think a response an IT technician at one of these companies made when they got raided by law enforcement for client information was, "Sure you can have what you're looking for... if you can find it. Cause we as sure can't."
yea but that could be seen as allowing them to search everywhere for it. instead it was "we dont keep what you're expecting to find, so if you take anything at all its illegal"
@@IceFire1800 most VPN services themselves have randomizing encryption software that essentially scrubs records clean when they hit their severs. Its essentially a clever loophole in say agencies like the NSA who are at anytime allowed to overtly or covertly search their records. The records are there... just nobody alive has enough time to decode and read them. Hence that famous response
Louisiana literally does just that. The sites where this pops up, it asks for an ID or take a picture with your webcam. This happens as soon as the page loads
This is a strong marketing point for the VPN company, but also the publicity is absolutely going to be used to spearhead the push for government overreaching and pushing anti-privacy bills meant to make VPNs illegal or strictly regulated by requiring all VPN providers to log traffic, IPs, and associate them with account ID.
Investigating an IP address which led back to mullvad servers, which probably engaged in some nefarious activity, hoping to find some customer information, in order to find out to whom that IP address was assigned. Thereafter, investigate from that point on.
@@Rimuru_Tempest_- makes the police look even worse than they already do. vpn's usually assign the same IP to multiple users so linking a specific user to a specific action is unlikely. As far as I'm concerned the police are either wilfully ignorant about how a vpn works or are lying to try and steal data.
I saw that as well! One of the two would be confusing, but both makes it look purposefully disrespectful. Im not super patriotic but it does feel weird
VPN Service: Come to us to keep privacy and protection online! The feds: No. Mutahar: HAUAHAU VPN COMPANY JUST GOT RAIDED BY THE FEDS! THEY GOT NOTHING! Cuts to Muthar smoking a cigar, rip bozo
Police: Open up! We have a warrant to search your hard-drives and computers. VPN Company: Come on in, officers. We have tea, coffee and biscuits set up for you... but no data, unfortunately.
Jesus here I am reading comments on UA-cam wondering how stupid people are going to be about this and I find this gem. You won't believe how few people can grasp such a simple concept. If the police have to rely on monitoring people's online data to catch criminals then they failed at protecting people in the first place. Instead of trying to creep on the public's data, maybe they can park their lazy asses in ghetto neighborhoods and keep an eye on those? It's so incredibly stupid that these governments want to take our rights to privacy when they have police officers with fucking eardrums. All this is is just to monitor us to control, manipulate, and threaten those who are unhappy with the government or plutocrats. All this is, is just a reason to spy on people. You can justify this with those p*do websites but maybe you should be going after the goddamn websites, not the VPNs? I know! Mind-blowing idea! Crazy how nobody seems to think of this.
Welp, I guess I am extending my subscription to Mullvad. I like that they are also honest with pricing. 5 euro a month. No discount if you buy 1 year or 2 years. Basically saying "Look, this is what is needed to run our business monthly".
Mullvad is Mole in Swedish. Like a mole in the ground. That’s such a clever name. A mole can hide itself from predators above ground and with its tunnel system, it can quickly change its location. Just like a VPN hides from spying eyes and change your virtual location with a click. Perfect ad campaign. Also, it’s pronounce Mell-Vod. It sounds a little different in Swedish but we don’t make those exact sounds in English so I wrote the closest phonetical phrase.
they should do a cleaning of their machines just incase any of those officers had alternate reason for the search warrant (thats if they even touched any of the devices)
They can’t hand over what they don’t have. It’s like when Signal complied with iirc the FBI and handed over all the user information they had. Which was basically nothing.
@@ArDeeMee He's saying if the feds might have planted something on the computers themselves. While they may not get specific users data, they could spy on the company from within. If it was multiple nations feds knocking down my door to access my computers then I may also want to have a clean restore of all the systems they may have touched.
@@ArDeeMee No brother, I am mostly focused on the the software that makes the anonymity possible. They may not hold user information, but the information does pass through it one way or another. IP do need to talk to each other, so if a malicious actors wanted to he could figure out a way to start logging information. It doesn't need to be anything large like a name or address, just enough to piece a puzzle together between actions.
The only reason I do t have Mullvad, is because I cant afford the 5 EUR month. I understand that privacy has its cost, but when you live in a country where your money is worth so much less than EUR, kinda makes it hard to prioritize one thing over the other :/
Germany is extremely privacy focused. The BSI and DSGVO are regulating every single use of personal data & information. But regarding to crimes it does get spicy sometimes. I once got raided by the German Police and they took all my Hard Drives and my Phone. But they also werent able to hack my Bitlocker and standard iPhone Encryption which was pretty funny to me
@@Wesmoen yeah that was pretty scary, ngl. They drilled open my door in 6 o‘clock in the morning because their knocking didnt wake me up. They also destroyed some of my furniture (by accident of course). And one of them Goofballs seriously took some of my Pokemon Cartridges and a bare Intel CPU 😂 About 6 month later I got everything back. Which tbh was pretty bad because basically my whole Music Career was on these hard drives…
I mean, no one can really "hack" iPhone encryption... Brute force would literally take years on hypothetically powerful machines, let alone that iOS has restrictions regarding login attempts like the 'cooldown' where you have to wait a certain time before you can try again (and it increases every time you fail) plus you could enable the option to have all your data deleted after 10 failed attempts which would leave them with undecryptable data nobody in this world could do anything with since the whole 'decryption iu' would be gone - so basically same security as smashing your sdd with a hammer unless there is some flaw in the encryption algorythm - which if it existed was not yet found after almost 10 years of operation...
I've always thought with age verification for certain sites, it should be done in a semi anonymous way. There certainly shouldn't be logs of any sort, as soon as that gets breached (and I'm sure it would be a target) it will not be pretty. Or say, intentional leaks made to look accidental against certain people? I'm not sure what the most feasible way of anonymization would be, perhaps someone with that expertise could share a method?
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Aaand not-surprised at all. Thats why i dont pay for that vpn crap. Its just paying for a powder-keg made of false-promises WAITING to go-off of a different kind.
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Mullvad VPN getting raided and the feds not being able to get any customer info must be the best marketing ever for any VPN company 😂
They didn't expected this to happen, but oh boy the investors sure will be glad to see their sales figure to shot through the roof.
Its like if you do your job properly people will admire it.
I hope the vpn company sues the police ik I would have
@@phasechange5053 Yup am buying it now i trust them now
Share holders: stonks 💹
It's pretty fucked up when the police of another nation can just seize your computers, not because you're suspected of any wrong doing, not even something that isn't a crime in your own country but because they suspect other people, from another country of committing a crime, that you couldn't possibly be aware of, using a legally purchased service which you legally provide.
That's like seizing the contents of a bank vault because someone used some money they withdrew to buy drugs.
Well that's the point isn't it? If you're a VPN service that logs usage, this information can be used by the cops to track down suspects using your service, so they seize your hardware to get it. However VPNs that are actually good like Mullvad store absolutely nothing, and what little they do store (payment info I believe) cannot be tied to your service usage history in any way, because no such history exists. Then both you and the VPN service are protected from law enforcement and you can rest easy knowing a thousand glowies are quietly seething.
Well, that's Europe in a nutshell it happens a lot around here 🤣🤣🤣
Did you expect a government to be any better than a mafia? Sorry to say, but history doesn't support that.
Bruh you do realize that is straight up illegal right? I like to imagine them going after nintendo servers and computers because a person is doing something illegal using theyre services
@@lexnight8345 you say this like you folks in the US dont give the police the aiblity ot just take anything they want regardless of merit under the umbrella of " civil forfeiture"
-Get raided by police
-Police got nothing
-VPN tweets it to Twitter
-No Customer data breached
-Refuses to further elaborate
Chad VPN company, no advertisement needed anymore lol
@@sussyyt2052not with that pfp.
@@sussyyt2052 eat glass bot
@@ashurad_fox5991 They never advertised before
@@handikappad they have is just as private as their servers that's why you havent seen it yet and can't find it
You know, Muta. The guise of keeping things secure under the veil of "protecting children" has been going on for decades. It's a pretty easy and typical avenue that politicians like to exploit so they can extend their power to inspect and surveil more and more. A noble idea on paper but a very tired approach for politicians to "protect" children while allowing more reach for the government.
Like using it as justification for racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and a lot more.
@@bestaround3323 in order to be ist-aphobic you have to be afraid of the thing. Nobody is afraid, they are disgusted.
@@bestaround3323 Pretty random to bring that in. OP talked about governments abusing their power, not stupid ordinary people
This is something extremely important everyone needs to understand. Though unfortunately I don't think that will ever happen
@@bestaround3323 nah he means libs
15 years ago, The Pirate Bay (TPB), was raided by Swedish police with help from the United States. 3 years later in 2009, it was raided again, but quickly propped itself online again.
As of today, that site still operates and about to enter 20th birthday in September 2023.
The galaxy's most resistant website
But that doesn’t answer the question of why I still hate Rosa
Please ask
thats a nightmare for the US government
Arrgh!!!
@@ihaterosa129 no one cares.
Fun fact: Rosa Parks was an inside job.
As a user of Mullvad vpn, This is definitely a good verification of their authenticity.
😂👍
it is extremely common for cops to arrest their own informants to lend them credibility.
@@adrianmizen5070aight bro nice conspiracy
@@adrianmizen5070 Mullvad is in Sweden, one of the most transparent countries. I live in Sweden, everything, and I mean everything is publically available, with exceptions to medical records and things of that nature. How much money you make, how mcuh you own, if you’re in debt, where you live, who you live with, what your phone number is, companies you’re involved with, your criminal record, how many and what vehicles you own etc. You can also find almost all criminal cases and the people involved publically. Good luck with that idea
Damn, if this whole situation isn’t a glowing review for a VPN company I don’t know what is
I mean, they still go off easier than Rosa did after grabbing Tom Hollands juicy booty
Dude came for his life for no reason at all 💀
that's not the only thing that was glowing in this situation.. ha... haha..
lol glowing
@@camtubecamtube muta do be glowing pretty hard lately
Services like this will be needed more and more for years to come as Governments around the world become increasingly Tyrannical and focused on destroying your privacy.
i had a feeling it was mullvad and i am so glad i paid for it. as an iranian i love mullvad a lot especially since it works without requiring emails and phone numbers. you dont even need the app to use it. they let you download configs for wireguard and open VPN to bypass their own client entirely. mad respect !
edit : forgot to mention that you can actually pay less then 5$ and they add the correct the amount of days based on how much you pay. that means you can pay for exactly how much VPN time you need when you use Crypto
Out of curiosity why not TOR? I've ran TOR nodes in the past and generally I get quite a few hits from Iran. It seems like a lot of trust to put in a company --- that was apparently well founded in this case.
@@grigorigahan tor is harder to use and easy to detect and completely blocked in iran at the moment. . your experience will be way worse using alot of websites with tor . constant bot prompts is one of the issues. being forced to use a specific browser is one of the other problems. and its SLOOOOW. with mullvad my speed is on par with no VPN but on tor things are so slow that watching a single youtube video can take all day. on top of that i need a system wide VPN not just the browser.
I just wanna say, good on you for sidestepping unfair censorship. I'm glad to have you on the internet at large. No government needs to know your every move.
@@bestaround3323 Does snowflake add-on works? I'm running it for the better.
@@ali32bit42 There is no debating the speed aspect. I'm really familar with TOR. One thing you could look into is whonix. Whonix routes all your internet traffic through a gateway VM which is only connected to the internet via TOR (read its not just the browser -- but your whole computer) You could even route that TOR traffic through your VPN or use ipsec tunneling to disguise the TOR traffic. Of course there is zero getting around TOR being slow.
i hate when lawmakers push to end privacy like this, actual competent online criminals use tor for their shenanigans and criminals dumb enough to trust their ISP or a random VPN are probably also dumb enough to sell their illegal stuff on facebook marketplace
@@Unknown_Genius governments like knowing everything about their citizens I guess, i see them remotely looking at my browser history the same as a government agent looking over my shoulder in my hecking house, so I protect myself purely because it's kinda creepy haha
@@Unknown_Genius yeah but im like a 144p mutahar and use firefox with noscript, canvasblocker and ublock. I selectively choose what javascript instances to run per website and even with javascript, canvasblocker should be randomizing most fingerprinting methods
It makes browsing the web harder but it's kinda cool to see what sites do and how little you can accept without breaking the site
It was never about stopping criminals, its about making people into criminals
@@Unknown_Genius You don't know what you're talking about. I use a VPN for privacy, not accessing region locked content. It's extremely useful for my purposes.
@@croozerdog Hadn't heard about canvasblocker, so thanks for mentioning it. I despise everyone who uses browser fingerprinting.
My word... Mullvad doesn't need an ad anymore for this. Just literally show the consumers the summary of the event that just happened. Literally they got raided by police and not a trace of anything?
I'm now expecting their subscription/sales to go through the roof now and in the future.
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makes you think if it would be a good time to invest
@@fishbinky cant buy the stock, is it only available in us?
@@Rosadahoesa Facts bro
@@Duke6598 Mullvad is a privately owned and operated company, you cannot invest in it from anywhere.
Pretty scary precedent when simply seeking out or providing a service to help improve someone's privacy is viewed as a crime.
I’ve been touting Mullvad as the only VPN that isn’t a scam even before this video was made, but I’m nevertheless glad to see someone w/ a larger following bring some needed positive attention to Mullvad
SAME! I’m so proud of adopting Mullvad years ago and it turning out that I made the right decision!
@@danc8019 is it good to stream netflix and such on. thinking about getting it now
@roblaaa nah it don't work for that but other than that it's the best
Same but I have been worried about it getting too big exactly for the reason we have recently seen. Soon a law will come probably from EU to force them to log and when that does happen Mullvad gets shutdown.
@@roblaaa1845 No stop paying for garbage like Netflix and start using a debrid service
I personally did a vast amount of time researching different VPN companies and after my research I decided to pay more money and go with Mullvad and stories like this makes me happy with my decision.
I've been using Mullvad for years. Just read the title and was curious, when I read Mullvad in the description my heart fucking sank. Thank god nothing was found, I'm VERY glady giving them €5 a month.
Your heart sank because you got that fiddler diddler content on your computer eh? 😮💨
I don’t care but I still decided to reply
my first thought was, "Please don't be mullvad," lol
@@mamaharumi Same I knew it was gonna happen because of how much attention it has been getting and it will just get worse
TF you got to be worried about anon? Doing something the glowies wanna know? 😂
I'm from Utah, and I definitely need a VPN. This video pretty much made my decision for me.
For the hub 🙌🏻
Whenever a government starts talking about protecting children you should immediately get really skeptical.
The government should wok on other things. Protecting children is the job from the children's parents and if they don't protect children's, don't know what the child do or simply don't care, then the government shouldn't act as an seperate parent with higher power to control the child.
The state wants to indoctrinate your kids
because they are protecting children.. You can cope as much as you want but the fact is that most people who use mullvad use it for illegal purposes, most likely CP.
Imagine how many pedophiles are gonna be flocking to get mullvad after this because they know they almost literally cant get caught
Especially organizations talking about child protection, people should really need to be skeptical about that too.
Every single law about "PrOtEcTiNg ThE kIdS" has ALWAYS been about population control, propaganda or restricting freedom lol
i've been using mullvad for months now with absolutely no issue and its so sick to see them popping up on a channel like this for the best reason possible. i read the title of the video 100% whole heartedly expecting to laugh at nord or surfshark again, then hearing "mullvad" come from muta's mouth genuinely made my heart sink. fantastic vpn, never even notice it's on until sites with cloudflare ask me to pass their bot / anti-vpn checks. no speed loss or anything, great service.
tbh it has a really big speed loss for me thats why i use ivpn
@@4CMC hmm, ive not noticed a speed loss at all across multiple devices on multiple different connections in different places (home network, friends house, work) all having unique providers and each place having fair physical distance from one another. i'd suggest trying a different server, maybe one a little closer to home for a simple performance test, and if that doesn't work it potentially could just be unlucky hardware that doesn't like their service or drivers too much.
regardless though, you've found a vpn that works and that's all that matters. so long as you trust the vpn service provider with your data and wallet, and they do provide the promised service, theres no issue in what you wanna use.
mullvad was a nice pick for me because i suffer extreme OCD (mostly obsessive) and struggle with intrusive thoughts, especially when browsing online or hosting game servers for friends / friends of friends, so the pure anonymity of not even making my own account felt incredibly reassuring and allows me to pretty effortlessly do what i enjoy doing online and feel safe in doing so.
my bad for the essay response to 1 sentence lmao, felt compelled to get the entire train of thought out at once
@@intraurinsane yeah to be honest im not close at all to any good mullvad servers (central europe here hehexd) so this may be an issue though my oosu10+w10privacy settings may have impacted it as well. ive found my vpn basing on the same criterias that you have and that additional dollar wont hurt me if it comes to for example 10x bigger download speed
@@4CMC fk yea man cant knock someone for bein happy with what works for them :) glad you have just any form of internet privacy nonetheless
What’s so funny about Nord? Actually curious
I live in Utah and can neither confirm nor deny that I went looking for a VPN service within the past few days
Utah's vpn usage skyrocketing atm. Lol
I feel bad for you guys, such a stupid law that clearly wasn't thought through at all. What dumbass thought "Ah yes, upload your ID to any dodgy porn site and risk your privacy"... that shit gonna do more harm to minors than a step sister stuck in a washing machine
My friends works in VPN world and there is ALOT of new traffic from UTAH. LOL!!!
Dude, leave that effing taliban state. Eff Utah.
@@Pond721 lmfao based as fuck
At first I was lowkey on board with actual age verification for porn, but when I saw they wanted pics of your face, I backed up real quick.
Feds just gave them the greatest marketing campaign a VPN Company could receive. Bravo Mullvad
You know it’s gonna be a great video when Mutahar has his great, hearty laugh at the start.
Just imagine that one day he starts the video staring into our souls
@@IloveHildasfeet 💀 scary
You know I'm better than muta
🤡🤡🤡
You forgot to mention that it's also an open source app, meaning programmers can literally go to the source code to see what the app is actually doing, what they're storing. This is huge. I'm one of the coders who actually went to check their code. Love open source stuff!
I've been using them for a year now. Went with them specifically because of where they're based, and because they don't keep logs. Even then, I always have a bit of skepticism in my head when it comes to any VPN, but after seeing this, I see that I can put some real faith in them, so long as they don't go changing their policies.
same here, its based in my city, but i was always a bit skeptic of how private it was, now i defo dont have as many doubts though
SOMEORDINARYGAMERS IS MAD BECAUSE IM BETTER
@@sussyyt2052 so what?
@@Misack8 ignore the bots
Good rule of thumb, always assume any service you use is not worthy of trust. Just in case they do something it betray it, but of course getting something that you can trust better and has been proven to be better is the best strategy.
I definitely care about privacy. I've always been leary of UA-cam ad vpns, and now that feeling has been validated! Just signed up, paid for a year, couldn't be happier.
Greetings from Sweden 😉
Such nice policemen, giving Mullvad free advertising!
As an IT security specialist, regarding a privacy focused VPN, which are both Swedish, I'd recommend Mullvad and OVPN :)
I have a friend of a friend who helped set up OVPN's system of running it all on RAM. Their HQ is within a military zone if i'm not mistaken and to raid such a place, you need a military grade warrant (not the same as a normal warrant) and most of the time, you WILL NOT get it. Military does not want to bother with such things and more about Swedens safety. The cops won't be able to raid it, as just explained.. so yap ;P Those two if you need something good and reliable!
Oh give it a rest with the "military grade" rubbish!!! Put your friend, the real IT person on and we will talk to him. You don't seem to know much.
their sales are going through the roof now forsure, I didn’t know about them till now and damn I want to use their VPN
Man, as someone whos used mullvad for many years with 0 complaints, seeing this sends me over the moon with happiness
Most calm Swedish police.
Thought the swedes were cowards though?
Still not as calm as that one elderly person down the street that yells at kids who step onto his yard
Those cops must be the direct descendants of Vikings
@@Kxvito Who says that??
@@Kxvito No, that's the french
If I was a country and raided a VPN company and found something i would definitly say that I found nothing, not only to get criminal off guard but also to protect the VPN company who cooperated with me.
5:09 the absolute disrespect to not only turn our flag the wrong way around but call us "Holland" on top of it as well. I would rather have a black flag and being called sprinkles at that point.
hahaha xD
Took a page from our farmers. Damn.
It’s like when Americans call this 🇬🇧 "England“
@@Tobi-ln9xr same thing innit fish n chips
This is awesome to hear :D
Mullvad gonna have a spike in users, I'm sure.
I can also see the good and bad sides of this.
I keep saying that VPNs are great and all, but really the truth is we all need to be focused on the bigger fight. Protecting ourselves and our privacy from the government. So keeping up with bills and laws and fighting against the ones that threaten our privacy. VPNs feel like a band aid when those things are factored in.
Of course, I'm not saying don't use them, just saying to keep focused on what your government is doing by threatening your privacy.
You can be sure on that spike in users. I just heard of it and I paid for it heh.
VPNs can do wonders to help gamers rest easy, to stop ddos attacks and doxing while streaming
i've been using Mullvad for roughly half a year now, i am certainly surprised they weren't able to find anything, only leads me to believe in it even more now.
I am glad they didn't cave, privacy is the right of every person regardless of their actions.
its not that they didnt cave, they literally couldnt. They didnt have any data to begin with which means if the police got access to their computers they wouldn't find ANYTHING. And honestly thats the best thing any VPN service can do, just keep absolutely as little information AS POSSIBLE about your user
Oh yeah? The people who are downloading CP? You want them to have this right too? Or the people involved in disgusting organised crime? Such as human trafficking etc.
Freedom comes at a cost. You decide what that cost should be.
Personally I won't mind the government looking at my porn history if it means that these criminals are getting caught.
You decide what's more important to you. Your meaningless rights. Or those innocents.
@@swastickpaliwal6105 That's not the best thing a VPN can do, it's the absolutely minimum requirement! If they store data it's 100% useless because that data can be gotten to by the authorities if they really want it. This is why now in addition to no logging they are using ALL RAM servers so they don't even have HDDs or SSDs to be seized.
@@TheRealGigaCat you can't pick and choose who gets the right to privacy cause much like free speech it's an everyone or no one has it situation.
@@ucitymetalhead yeah? Now think about it hard. If you want to actually live in society. You cannot have any of those.. and that's a fact. Thinking otherwise is throwing tantrums.
It’s nice to hear about companies that aren’t incredibly evil and causing worldwide conflict, it’s nice.
Truly a police moment.
@sammyplays20You’re gonna have to pay people a good chunk of Jeff Bezos’s net worth for them to see all of that
Promise?
Please refrain from blaspheming.
Cool video, also nice job on not blurring out your location 7:34
Lol I saw an ad for this VPN on the bus a while back.
Fun fact: mullvad basically means mole in Swedish
Fun fact II: The Old English word was "moldwarp".
basically? you mean literally means mole?
fun fact: glas basically means glass in Swedish
@@tsoii I know I just wasn’t 100% sure and didn’t wanna use the wrong word in my own language 💀
yep, their corporate logo is a mole wearing a hardhat too
Mullvad boss was laughing his ass off seeing the police coming through the door thinking "yeah buddy search like you want"
0:25 He said "Nothing" with such strength that the lights went out
As someone living in Germany hearing how they are mostly the ones behind this is absolutely not surprising.. at this point im not sure if the regulations being enforced here on the internet usage might one day turn into China 2.0
Probably not, the rise in such requests is more likely due to police funding. Even the last East German province got their own cyber crime special unit now.
Bruh, we are not even close to that level, do not talk bullshit like that.
Politics try to do some real dumb shit in law enforcement being able to look into data more easily, yes. But comparing it to a state where "the internet" is basically limited to a few state-approved websites is just dumb and miles from the truth.
Ugh. The fact that the government tried to collect data is a huge worry.
Is this a joke or are you new to the internet
They always keep trying. Big companies and governments want to keep it for themselves and their own goals, often against a casual user.
Dude, in Poland you would get killed if they know you work better than them in safety. They have murder in account and attempts of murder.
@@phelan8385 No they've just been propagandised into thinking china is the only one that collects internet data for nefarious purposes.
First time?
I’ve sworn by Mullvad for years, I’m happy to see it promoted.
I personally wouldn’t trust any hardware that was touched by the cops. Hope Mullvad wipes everything clean and checks their firmwares
Didnt they say nothing was touched and police left after a talk?
I'm sure they're smart enough to know to do that.
@@helenwhs seems that way! They weren't really raided, just told the police to politely fuck off - and then the police had to cos of law...Maybe they knew this would be the case themselves but had to pretend to do something cos Germany asked. Look guys, we tried ;).
Their servers run on RAM disks, no hard drives. They should be fine but they probably will reinstall some things anyway.
If you have such a distrust for actual good police forces, you got some issues
I've been using Mullvad for a very long time. Good to know they focus on privacy this much.
Hey Mutah! Keep up the awesome videos!❤ I’ve been watching you since Middle School and it makes me happy your still going on strong!
NordVPN was tested in court and was supposed to be the same way and then recently they came out publicly and announced that they would comply with the government which was very bad news for people wanting to keep their private information private.
Fr Nords a scam.
You are completely stupid if you use Nord or one of the other 124 companies owned by just 5 main operators. ALL of them are inspecting your data and manipulating, then selling it on to others. Nord is banned from PayPal because of all the complaints it had, they want your credit card to compile a verified profile as they have your real details. handy for law enforcement too when put together with the logs of the data that are kept. If you think you are not having anything logged, you need to wake up.
Try cancelling Nord, you will not be able to easily. Your service will probably go down after the 30day money back guarantee too, that is what cause the PayPal ban. Why would you lower your security by allowing data to be given to a company operating where no data protection applies and no consumer law applies? Why would you pay to lower your privacy?
Your data is more secure with your ISP than most VPNs.
People are stupid when they are asked why they need a VPN, they give daft answers they heard on TV or saw in a video that is from someone paid 40% commission to get them onboard.
90% if users DO NOT need a VPN, they serve absolutely no purpose and give no protection.
I always through that the "no logs policy" on VPNs was bullshit, those sponsors are everything but honest
at least there is one VPN that doesn't log every single thing you do
It is on most VPNs, they ALL log your connection and device ID in order to control the connection to the service and billing. So they know which phones and PCs are associated with your account and the IP numbers used by your account. How do people think they control the "5 connections" business. That might only be stored for a short time, but it is enough to link someone to a crime if they were so minded.
Most equipment is rented in datacenters, so the VPN company has no real control over the law enforcement in that country. In the UK the VPN companies have no way of stopping the host inspecting and storing all VPN data, and it will not be encrypted when they do that.
It's a big word game, companies are good at telling you what you want to hear to get a sale. Like those awful affiliate channels. One was advertising WeVPN to get commission, they never paid him as it was probably a front for law enforcement. The company shut down a few months ago, once the experiment was over! A 2 year funded experiment to collect all the data and see what people were up to.
What you will find soon is that the next Encrochat scandal will be a VPN company being compromised and a lot of people in a panic.
We have entered the age of internet prohibition, time to start our form of defense to it.
Damn I might have to legitimately think about switching VPN providers
Same mine is based in Canada ..
i think mullvad is only $5 a month
@@diseasedworm9209 $4/month if you pay with a privacy focused way (monero, cash per letter) bitcoin, litecoin, Eth, etc. transactions can be seen by everyone publicly (which address sent how much money to which destination address) while this isn't possible with Monero.
@@electricz3045 How do you add funds to Monero? Using your own debit card would be dumb.
@@NoMore12345-z You can buy a pre-paid debit card in most countries, just go to a shop and add cash to it.
This single video has done more than every add I've seen this year I'm actually going the sign up with these guys
Switched over to Mullvad mere days before the raid happened. The outcome absolutely reinforced how great of a decision that was.
The government is there to show that no matter how bad you mightve screwed up ever, it pales in comparisson by the daily screwups of the gov.
If I was going to take anyone's recomendation on a VPN it's you Muta, you don't BS people, your upfront, and no fluff talk.
Just bought a year worth of membership because of this, nothing like a failed police raid to sell you on a vpn!
I love that you cover VPNs as a double edged sword, most people just sing it praise and refuse to accept that there are legitimate reasons for law enforcement to want eyes in such services.
This makes me wanna buy Mullvad now
"... any website that promoted dysentery" put so many great images in my head, thanks for that.
They struck a great bargain with all the free promotion the Swedish police gave em
So glad to be a Mullvad customer, I got so scared at first! Lol
Muta being serious right after opening with a welcoming intro is always gonna be the funniest shit for me
I think a response an IT technician at one of these companies made when they got raided by law enforcement for client information was, "Sure you can have what you're looking for... if you can find it. Cause we as sure can't."
yea but that could be seen as allowing them to search everywhere for it.
instead it was "we dont keep what you're expecting to find, so if you take anything at all its illegal"
@@IceFire1800 most VPN services themselves have randomizing encryption software that essentially scrubs records clean when they hit their severs. Its essentially a clever loophole in say agencies like the NSA who are at anytime allowed to overtly or covertly search their records. The records are there... just nobody alive has enough time to decode and read them. Hence that famous response
Mullvad VPN, we take the raid for you.
Darn, what a service.
thanks again for teaching us all about cyber security
" a single BYTE of data" lmao this cracked me up
I've been using Mullvad for a few years and have been dying to know if it has the Muta stamp of approval. Thank God!
The Policemen: “understandable have a good day.
This is the best sponsor video for any VPN that I've ever seen, and it's not even sponsored.
The police is so nice trying to help a company in their country to get more business
Louisiana literally does just that. The sites where this pops up, it asks for an ID or take a picture with your webcam. This happens as soon as the page loads
you forgot to censor your city later on in the video! just a heads up :)
This is a strong marketing point for the VPN company, but also the publicity is absolutely going to be used to spearhead the push for government overreaching and pushing anti-privacy bills meant to make VPNs illegal or strictly regulated by requiring all VPN providers to log traffic, IPs, and associate them with account ID.
I would’ve love to know the reason they would raid these guys. Definitely a good reason.
Because the cops hate privacy
Investigating an IP address which led back to mullvad servers, which probably engaged in some nefarious activity, hoping to find some customer information, in order to find out to whom that IP address was assigned. Thereafter, investigate from that point on.
@@Rimuru_Tempest_- Yeah, a lot of these people use VPNs to do horrible things.
@@Rimuru_Tempest_- makes the police look even worse than they already do. vpn's usually assign the same IP to multiple users so linking a specific user to a specific action is unlikely. As far as I'm concerned the police are either wilfully ignorant about how a vpn works or are lying to try and steal data.
@@K26650 Who knows, police aren't usually the most technologically savvy.
This makes me so happy to be a Mullvad customer even more.
I cannot believe they got both the name of the country and the flag (upside down) wrong for the Netherlands on the “5, 9, 14 eyes” graph
So Mullvad just got a new customer, it's me. I'm new customer.
Wow their sign ups just shot up 1000000%. This is literally the BEST FREE ADVERTISING EVER !!!!
This is probably the best advertising they could have gotten 😂
5:00 Not only do they call The Netherlands "Holland"(A province!), they also turned our flag upside-down. That kinda hurts, bro.
I saw that as well! One of the two would be confusing, but both makes it look purposefully disrespectful. Im not super patriotic but it does feel weird
VPN Service: Come to us to keep privacy and protection online!
The feds: No.
Mutahar: HAUAHAU VPN COMPANY JUST GOT RAIDED BY THE FEDS! THEY GOT NOTHING!
Cuts to Muthar smoking a cigar, rip bozo
When he switched the vibe in the beginning “a vpn company just got raided by the cops” I got chills
Police: Open up! We have a warrant to search your hard-drives and computers.
VPN Company: Come on in, officers. We have tea, coffee and biscuits set up for you... but no data, unfortunately.
They’re raiding the wrong people is the problem.
Jesus here I am reading comments on UA-cam wondering how stupid people are going to be about this and I find this gem.
You won't believe how few people can grasp such a simple concept. If the police have to rely on monitoring people's online data to catch criminals then they failed at protecting people in the first place. Instead of trying to creep on the public's data, maybe they can park their lazy asses in ghetto neighborhoods and keep an eye on those? It's so incredibly stupid that these governments want to take our rights to privacy when they have police officers with fucking eardrums. All this is is just to monitor us to control, manipulate, and threaten those who are unhappy with the government or plutocrats.
All this is, is just a reason to spy on people. You can justify this with those p*do websites but maybe you should be going after the goddamn websites, not the VPNs? I know! Mind-blowing idea! Crazy how nobody seems to think of this.
Who would be the right people?
@@vote5man government leaders
@@vote5man Epstein's clients.
The entire point of the raid was to find the right people. Not sure what you are trying to say
Been using Mullvad since the PIA buyout and this just tells me I chose right.
It's amazing how people like Philip K Dick were able to predict the future so accurately.
Huxley takes mescaline.
"We're fucked"
A lot of what looks to you like a prediction of the future is nothing but reporting of current things, just told as though it hadn't happened yet.
Welp, I guess I am extending my subscription to Mullvad. I like that they are also honest with pricing. 5 euro a month. No discount if you buy 1 year or 2 years. Basically saying "Look, this is what is needed to run our business monthly".
I love it when law enforcement takes an L and a champion of internet privacy gets a W. Both is golden
Mullvad is Mole in Swedish. Like a mole in the ground. That’s such a clever name.
A mole can hide itself from predators above ground and with its tunnel system, it can quickly change its location. Just like a VPN hides from spying eyes and change your virtual location with a click. Perfect ad campaign.
Also, it’s pronounce Mell-Vod. It sounds a little different in Swedish but we don’t make those exact sounds in English so I wrote the closest phonetical phrase.
they should do a cleaning of their machines just incase any of those officers had alternate reason for the search warrant (thats if they even touched any of the devices)
They can’t hand over what they don’t have. It’s like when Signal complied with iirc the FBI and handed over all the user information they had. Which was basically nothing.
@@ArDeeMee He's saying if the feds might have planted something on the computers themselves.
While they may not get specific users data, they could spy on the company from within.
If it was multiple nations feds knocking down my door to access my computers then I may also want to have a clean restore of all the systems they may have touched.
@@ArDeeMee No brother, I am mostly focused on the the software that makes the anonymity possible. They may not hold user information, but the information does pass through it one way or another. IP do need to talk to each other, so if a malicious actors wanted to he could figure out a way to start logging information. It doesn't need to be anything large like a name or address, just enough to piece a puzzle together between actions.
Solid Mutahar take, can we get this bass boosted for the people in the back?
The only reason I do t have Mullvad, is because I cant afford the 5 EUR month. I understand that privacy has its cost, but when you live in a country where your money is worth so much less than EUR, kinda makes it hard to prioritize one thing over the other :/
Mullvad: "We want to see the searchwarrant and all documents involved"
Prosecutor: "We don't keep logs..."
Germany is extremely privacy focused. The BSI and DSGVO are regulating every single use of personal data & information. But regarding to crimes it does get spicy sometimes. I once got raided by the German Police and they took all my Hard Drives and my Phone. But they also werent able to hack my Bitlocker and standard iPhone Encryption which was pretty funny to me
For what did they raid you? Suspicion of what?
@@Wesmoen I wont tell that on the Internet. But they thought they find some evidence for an ongoing investigation of a close relative
@@timothy_synth Makes sense, but it's still weird that people just can barge into your home because you're suspected.
@@Wesmoen yeah that was pretty scary, ngl. They drilled open my door in 6 o‘clock in the morning because their knocking didnt wake me up. They also destroyed some of my furniture (by accident of course). And one of them Goofballs seriously took some of my Pokemon Cartridges and a bare Intel CPU 😂
About 6 month later I got everything back. Which tbh was pretty bad because basically my whole Music Career was on these hard drives…
I mean, no one can really "hack" iPhone encryption... Brute force would literally take years on hypothetically powerful machines, let alone that iOS has restrictions regarding login attempts like the 'cooldown' where you have to wait a certain time before you can try again (and it increases every time you fail) plus you could enable the option to have all your data deleted after 10 failed attempts which would leave them with undecryptable data nobody in this world could do anything with since the whole 'decryption iu' would be gone - so basically same security as smashing your sdd with a hammer unless there is some flaw in the encryption algorythm - which if it existed was not yet found after almost 10 years of operation...
You had me scared shitless for a second there Muta. Glad i picked Mullvad as my vpn.
I've always thought with age verification for certain sites, it should be done in a semi anonymous way. There certainly shouldn't be logs of any sort, as soon as that gets breached (and I'm sure it would be a target) it will not be pretty. Or say, intentional leaks made to look accidental against certain people? I'm not sure what the most feasible way of anonymization would be, perhaps someone with that expertise could share a method?
Thanks for bringing this up. I used these guys in some of my networks. I know my home PC's use them.
Greatest advertisement
i've been using mullvad for about 2 years now and i have to say it's the most based vpn provider