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illiac786today at 5:46 AM1 replyview on HN

Well there is still the small detail of them not storing any logs.

This is a massive issue in my view, it allows correlation across multiple VPNs exit nodes, but that’s it. It doesn’t allow to identify you automatically. It does significantly lower the bars for identifying you though, but the requirements are still high.

Hopefully they fix this soon.

I can’t believe this type of “let’s make it a hash or something sensitive” still happen, and at mullvad, of all places. Why not randomise it simply?


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overfeedtoday at 5:53 AM

> It does significantly lower the bars for identifying you though, but the requirements are still high

If you squint a bit, it looks a lot like a "Nobody But US" (NOBUS[1]) scheme. A few more identifying bits could tip the scale for party that has a whole host of other bits on a list of suspects, without being useful to most other people.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOBUS

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