Great work!
Totally feel left out though with no support for Linux / GrapheneOS.
With the coming all-seeing AI agents is there any point in providing secure internet access to what inherently is a surveillance device?
Today is the day: Obscura VPN is NOW AVAILABLE!
Obscura is the first VPN that:
- CAN'T log your activity by design
- Outsmarts network filters
We believe Obscura sets the standard for a new generation of VPNs, and hope you’ll check it out!
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Contrary to popular belief, traditional VPNs (even “no-log” ones) can track you – they see both who you are and what you do, just like your ISP.
Your ISP is no better. Since 2017, they've been able to legally sell your sensitive data.
Obscura is different – we never see your decrypted internet packets in the first place.
It’s simply impossible for us to log your internet activity, even if we were compelled to, or if our servers were compromised.
We achieve this by using a fully-independent exit hop run by @mullvadvpn. Ensuring that our servers never see your traffic, and the exit hop never sees your identity.
In fact, you can check your connected server’s public key against those listed on Mullvad’s server page!
But that’s not all…
You may have had the frustrating experience of trying to use your VPN on a restrictive WiFi: in an airport, a hotel, or certain jurisdictions.
Other VPNs will often fail to connect, as their off-the-shelf protocol is easily detected and blocked.
With Obscura, we built our own custom stealth protocol that is much harder to block.
Our protocol blends in with regular internet traffic using the same technology that powers HTTP/3 – QUIC – making it much harder for censors or network filters to detect or block.
To celebrate our launch, Obscura is just $6/month.
Our team has put in the hours to make this all a seamless experience, and I hope you’ll take Obscura for a spin.
Thanks for reading, and I’ll see you on the free and open internet. 🏄
P.S. For those looking for an exploration of our technical choices, here's our blog post! https://obscura.net/blog/bootstrapping-trust/
Discussion
Linux and grapheneos allow control of any AI you chose to have on your device. Won't protect you from the uncaring on proprietary OS and platforms though.
If I _choose_ to have an AI on my device, it will be a local one which cannot feed my data back to big tech.
There is a world of difference between that and Apple & Microsoft pushing AI agents to their newest devices, which constantly monitor the screen and device inputs with the goal being to 'see what you see, hear what you hear and live life essentially alongside you'
I completely agree. I would love my own personal Jarvis. But only on a device and OS I trust and control.
However, if you interact with others that are not so careful then all your interactions with them are not private. Please take care of yourself keeping this in mind..
Enable DAITA on your VPN. It makes AI agent analysis a lot more difficult if not impossible.
I am not talking about AI analysing network traffic. It is about the plan to have AI agents on modern phones which 'see what you see, hear what you hear'. If the AI can see my screen, there is little point in protecting the network traffic which feeds into the screen.
Huh well that's crappy. I guess refurbished phones are the way
Not to worry, most of our engineers are on Linux so that'll come!
We're also actively working on a WireGuard config generator to tide people over until fully-fleshed-out clients are released for other platforms
I'd encourage you to sign up for our platform-specific waitlist by clicking on the "Other Platforms" button on our homepage: obscura.net, you'll get an email once we have support for platforms!