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> less likely than a _single_ party being pressured or even a single party's infrastructure being hacked. Since Obscura uses a custom QUIC-based (?) protocol,
by ignoramous 2y ago
> less likely than a _single_ party being pressured or even a single party's infrastructure being hacked.
Since Obscura uses a custom QUIC-based (?) protocol, you'd need to use their custom made (open core) app to pay & register with both Obscura & Mullvad. That means, all your apples are in their app-basket, which is built entirely by a single-party?
Private Relay, otoh, seems like a 3 party setup (Apple, Cloudflare, Akamai)?
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43017140 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43017140
- dongcarl 2y agoPerhaps my answer [here](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43017681 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43017681) addresses your concerns! > The client software is here: https://github.com/Sovereign-Engineering/obscuravpn-client https://github.com/Sovereign-Engineering/obscuravpn-client, we also plan to make reproducible builds of our apps. In fact, I previously led the effort to revamp Bitcoin Core’s reproducible builds system to be [bootstrappable](https://bootstrappable.org/ https://bootstrappable.org/), work that is [referenced by the Tor project](https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-build/-/issues/32523 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-b...).