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> As far as I know, in a lot of country (like France) it is a legal obligation to keep logs and be able to identify one of your customer if the police demands i
by kfreds 6y ago
> As far as I know, in a lot of country (like France) it is a legal obligation to keep logs and be able to identify one of your customer if the police demands it.
Not for all types of services. ISPs are sometimes under obligation to log, but VPN services don't belong in that category.
I can't speak for others but we have contacts with legal experts (in a few jurisdictions) that alert us to changing laws. Ultimately if a country required us to start logging we would just cancel all of our machines there and leave.
On the topic of trustworthiness, you are completely right of course that VPN users put a lot of trust in their VPN provider. There is also the lemon market aspect - the information and competence asymmetry between user and operator. That begs the question of how to ascertain trustworthiness.
We think things like this help:
https://mullvad.net/blog/2018/10/17/signals-trustworthy-vpns/ https://mullvad.net/blog/2018/10/17/signals-trustworthy-vpns...
https://mullvad.net/blog/2019/6/3/system-transparency-future/ https://mullvad.net/blog/2019/6/3/system-transparency-future...
- chelmzy 6y agoAre you an employee at Mullvad? Just want to say thank you for the excellent product and does Mullvad plan to except Monero in the future?
- kfreds 6y agoHi! Thank you. I’m pretty sure it’s on the roadmap.
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- potency 6y agoI would love to use Mullvad, but I need split tunneling on a per-process basis (Windows), since there is the occasional website that hates VPN-based servers. I have a special browser installation I use for such occasions, but few VPN providers offer per-process VPN exceptions. Any chance Mullvad is considering this feature?
- xvector 6y agoHave you considered running a SOCKS proxy outside of Mullvad (ie on a Raspberry Pi or in the cloud?) You could then use Firefox Multi-Account Containers to bind a container to the SOCKS proxy, and whenever you need to access a site that doesn’t support a VPN you can just open it with in said container.
- potency 6y agoInteresting! Gave me something to look into, thanks.
- eptcyka 6y agoIf you squint at the git repository, you might see that its being worked on.