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The CEO of privacy-focused VPN company Mullvad is revealed as the primary financial backer of a political party in Örebro, Sweden.
A personal reflection on the challenges of maintaining a morally aligned tech stack, discussing the author's decisions to drop services like X and Telegram, and reconsidering Mullvad VPN after learning its owner donated to a controversial political party.
Mullvad VPN is rolling out a new mitigation to prevent exit IP fingerprinting between VPN servers, applied to several servers across multiple locations.
An analysis reveals that Mullvad VPN deterministically assigns exit IPs based on the WireGuard key, not randomly, leading to a small number of IP combinations that can uniquely identify users across sessions, undermining anonymity.
Mullvad VPN’s iOS app adds “Force all apps” toggle to block all traffic leaks by enabling includeAllNetworks, accepting Apple bugs that can brick updates.