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Port forwarding, or really just having any ports open at all, can definitely be used as part of fingerprinting.
by dec0dedab0de 3y ago
Port forwarding, or really just having any ports open at all, can definitely be used as part of fingerprinting.
- crazygringo 3y agoMullvad, like many VPN's, only gives (gave) you a single port. And you're free to change that port number as often as you like if you want to avoid being fingerprinted. But fingerprinting isn't deanonymization anyways. And this is stretching the idea of "fingerprinting" in the first place -- a single port number provides the same amount of information as an IP address. With a VPN you can rotate both as often or as little as you like.
- madars 3y agoSmall correction: Mullvad gave you 5 ports per account that you could assign (per VPN server city) to any of your 5 public keys in an arbitrary manner. E.g. 3 for one + 2 for another.