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by kfreds 3mo ago
I don't know the context of that quote, but no, that doesn't sound empathetic at all.
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by kfreds 3mo ago
My understanding is that the party leader, Markus Allard, is basing his political ideology on some new kind of Marxist analysis. You can read more about him here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_Allard
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by kfreds 3mo ago
> I think the legal and fiduciary concept of Conflict of Interest is relevant here, but perhaps only by analogy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_of_interest is quite informative. That's an interesting an
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by kfreds 3mo ago
As would I. That doesn't seem like a nice workplace. I'm pretty sure it's illegal too, at least in Sweden.
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by kfreds 3mo ago
> would you act differently if this person were not a co-founder? I have several colleagues who I'm fairly certain are anarcho-syndicalists, meaning they want to abolish the state and capitalism. I don't know about my colleague
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by kfreds 3mo ago
> I think/hope everyone here fully realizes and accepts that he technically donated as a private individual In this forum, yes. Unfortunately there are lots of people who don't care to inform themselves in the least. During the
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by kfreds 3mo ago
> I'm a long-time Mullvad customer, and I respect what the company has been doing and the pro-privacy political stance it openly and publicly stands for. Thank you.
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by kfreds 3mo ago
> are you saying that this right should only be afforded to those who pay for it Not at all. When we say we believe privacy is a universal right, we're saying that e.g. states and corporations that actively violate your privacy are
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by kfreds 3mo ago
You set the focus. I was simply responding to your comment, same as I am now. Again, I'm not defending his choice, but no, I'm not being naive. Over the 20 years I've known him he has demonstrated his values through consisten
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by kfreds 3mo ago
Indeed. What I hear you saying is that you recognize there is a kind of consistency, and benefit, to Mullvad's position. I'll admit holding the line like this, when most people don't understand the nuance, and most of those w
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by kfreds 3mo ago
I've known Daniel for 20 years. He's one of the most empathetic individuals I know. Neither he nor I wants to make our workplace a monoculture. I get that you disagree with his choice, as do I. But please recognize that we've
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by kfreds 3mo ago
I was acknowledging gpvos position, as well as that of others, and then stating my own position on the matter. I as an individual understand that there are people who see this party as left-wing or right-wing. That doesn't mean I agree
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by kfreds 3mo ago
Indeed. It matters to me. In fact, most of my political opinions have atrophied, or rather I have self-censored. Daniel believes that is not the right trade-off to make in this case. I understand his point of view, and disagree.
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by kfreds 3mo ago
Thank you. :)
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by kfreds 3mo ago
Of course. Sorry to hear you're leaving. Thank you for the compliment.
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by kfreds 3mo ago
Hi. I get what you mean. I made that post with limited time. Sorry to hear you're leaving.
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by kfreds 3mo ago
Consider GWB's "Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists." For and against are not always the only options. Sometimes there are nuances, or other concer
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by kfreds 3mo ago
I'm sorry to hear that. Yes, Daniel and I own 50% each. > obviously Berntsson has every right to his opinions and to express them Indeed. > and I also appreciate that someone can have control over an opinionated company and run i
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by kfreds 3mo ago
I'm sorry to hear you'll be leaving us. To answer your question, we started building this organization in the summer of 2008 for idealistic reasons, and we are still idealists who think privacy is fundamental to a civilized societ
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by kfreds 3mo ago
I'm sorry to hear that. I'm not defending his choice, but consider reading Daniel's rationale in the Flamman article. There's also his blog [1], which explains some of his views. I know he doesn't share all of Örebr
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by kfreds 3mo ago
Allow me to provide some nuance. I cannot speak for Daniel. I know there are some policies he likes and there are things he doesn’t like. Personally I am not a fan. This morning Daniel explained his rationale to most of the company. Speakin
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by kfreds 3mo ago
Hi, Mullvad has two owners, founders, and CEOs - Daniel Berntsson, and me, Fredrik Strömberg. All posts I've seen yesterday and today, including the newspaper articles, talk about Mullvad as if Daniel is the single owner, founder and C
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by kfreds 5mo ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "Oof". We don't have a dedicated security team because security and privacy are integral to all aspects of our service. It doesn't make sense to centralise it. As for our support team t
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by kfreds 5mo ago
As far as I can tell they did not, and I've asked both our operations and support teams. I will update this post if I am mistaken. Edit: In hindsight I regret making this comment. It was unnecessary, but removing it now would look weir
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by kfreds 5mo ago
I work at Mullvad. (co-CEO, co-founder) Some aspects of the described behavior are as we intended and some are not. The cause is not exactly as described in the blog post. As for mitigation, we are already testing a patch of the unintended
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by kfreds 7mo ago
Jesus talks and articles have been very helpful to me. Three years ago I had no idea how the Go runtime worked, but I very much wanted to learn more. I’m not a software engineer in the conventional sense, so reading the Go source was not a
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by kfreds 8mo ago
Well, it comes down to what trust assumptions you're OK with. Reproducible reduces trust in the build environment, but you still need to ensure authenticity of the source somehow. Verified boot, measured boot, repro builds, local/
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by kfreds 8mo ago
I just want more trustworthy systems. This particular concept of combining reproducible builds, remote attestation and transparency logs is something I came up with in 2018. My colleagues and I started working on it, took a detour into hard
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by kfreds 8mo ago
Hi David. Great! I actually wasn't planning on going due to other things, but this is worth re-arranging my schedule a bit. See you later this week. Please email me your contact details. As I mentioned above, we've followed system
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by kfreds 8mo ago
1. Are reproducible builds and transparency logging part of your concept? 2. Are you looking for pilot customers?

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