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SimplifiedPrivacy.com 10mo ago

This is suppressed:

How Mullvad Empowers the NSA

Even mainstream propaganda outlets like the Wall Street Journal, reported on the NSA acting as Google’s IT infrastructure during it's early years. We’ve all seen companies selling services TO the government.. But since when does the government provide service FOR a company?

Yet Google’s Youtube and Search, shape the way we understand privacy and technology. Not just Youtube, but also Larry Ellison is Elon Musk’s biggest financial backer to buy Twitter. He’s the current Chairman & CTO, and previous CEO of Oracle, which literally sells database solutions to the NSA for AI.

The reason you’re not hearing the types of criticisms of VPNs, that our podcast is about to tell you, is because the Youtube and Twitter algorithms act as hype wingmen, to suppress the truth about Mullvad’s new protocol named “DAITA”.

This negligent protocol harms users, by enabling and opening the door to the exact kinds of surveillance that it’s marketed as stopping. And this situation is made even worse by Mullvad’s other bad decisions on servers and opsec.

Simplified-Privacy may not have a lot of money. We may not have fame.

But in this critical podcast, we go against the grain, to bring you the raw truth:

web: https://podcast.simplifiedprivacy.com/mullvad/index.html

rss: https://podcast.simplifiedprivacy.com/index.xml

Maybe you hear it and don't act on it, but at least you deserve to know.

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beejay 10mo ago

Whoa.

dackdel 10mo ago

👀

Dont talk english, sorry, u can write here why mullvad take bad decision ?

SimplifiedPrivacy.com 10mo ago

Servers: Centralized

Protocol: Isolated Packets

Opsec: Poor, reliant on Big Tech

Strategy: Not using better, already existing methods

There is more, but it's a lot to type out. Prehaps we should do info graphics for the future

OpnState 10mo ago

👀

How many here use mullvad VPN?..

I use ivpn personally.... I move away from solutions that get too big.

SimplifiedPrivacy.com 10mo ago

Thanks for your time, I agree that IVPN is better than Mullvad, however many of the same flaws such as the datacenter selection exist there as well. One cool thing about our new VPN roll-out, is people can continue to use their existing VPN, and use our’s for a browser-only fingerprint. At just $1 in zaps, and doesn’t require sudo to install, it provides a great way to get someone’s feet wet to try it out with low risk. And the best part is, if you got IVPN on, then you’re anonymous to us. But it isn’t blocked or slow like Tor. This has a visual overview: vpn.simplifiedprivacy.com

OpnState 10mo ago

Okay I'm sold. Let's try this.

OpnState 10mo ago

Downloading now. I'll have the latest appimage, however your site doesn't instruct on how to run it. E. G. Find the file and run it,

SimplifiedPrivacy.com 10mo ago

Good call on adding further docs. Also a lot of info here: https://docs.simplifiedprivacy.com

thePR0M3TH3AN ✝️ 🥩 🍊 10mo ago

Do you have a better VPN to sell me?

a_priori 10mo ago

Spoiler: he does

thePR0M3TH3AN ✝️ 🥩 🍊 10mo ago

That's always the case.

SimplifiedPrivacy.com 10mo ago

What is the purpose in complaining about something, if you’re not going to do something about it?

Jocelyn Hinoue 10mo ago

what are your thoughts on protonVPN? same thing? if true it's a real shame they are linked with Obscura as one of the entry point I think

Galaxie 5000 10mo ago

I wonder

SimplifiedPrivacy.com 10mo ago

Proton uses the same providers for many locations. And having both email and a VPN from this same company is a bad privacy move. We’ve criticized Proton’s email in the past as being a centralized metadata point.

Jocelyn Hinoue 10mo ago

understood thank you for the information appreciate it

Machu Pikacchu 10mo ago

How does Obscura play into this?

SimplifiedPrivacy.com 10mo ago

Obscura as far as I know uses Apple/Mac for the clients, which has privacy issues at an OS level.

I'm not understanding your specific claim. Mullvad currently only offers DAITA on a handful of servers so far so not fully integrated in their VPN service. It's based on the open source code of Maybenot which has at least been peer reviewed:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3603216.3624953

John Dee 10mo ago

They way you explain this stuff makes me want to have nothing to do with you.

kepford 10mo ago

Exactly. If you have facts about weaknesses or actual evidence of malice share it without all the theater.

SimplifiedPrivacy.com 10mo ago

Thanks for writing in for an educational opportunity. Given your cunning intellect, we've decided to offer you a bounty of $40 in Bitcoin, to find a logical flaw (or factually untrue statement) in the 13 minute podcast for community benefit and education.

Surely you're not suggesting there are no flaws?

kepford 10mo ago

You seem the be missing the point we were trying to make. You may be correct but your presentation comes off as immature bravado instead of cold calculated description of flaws and weaknesses. I'm sure it's appealing to some but if your goal is to warn people or convert Mullvad customers I think you'd find more success with a more mature presentation.

You make some good points in your podcast though. I will say I've never heard Mullvad or any respected privavcy expert say VPNs hide you from the NSA. Your ISP, yes but not state actors. If you are making that claim for your methods I'm skeptical, as I am of Mullvad.

SimplifiedPrivacy.com 10mo ago

That is fair, ok I respect that. In the future, things can be framed in a different marketing sense

SimplifiedPrivacy.com 10mo ago

Your opinion of the speaker is subjective, and therefore can’t be debated. Can you find any objective flaws in the logic or facts?

thePR0M3TH3AN ✝️ 🥩 🍊 10mo ago

Community Note:

Mullvad’s DAITA is a feature that adds cover traffic and pads packet sizes to protect user privacy against traffic analysis. While it may slow speeds and increase data usage, there’s no verified evidence that it weakens security or enables government surveillance.

Did AI write this?

Uh oh, your lack of education is showing

SimplifiedPrivacy.com 10mo ago

Can you present a single objective example of this?

thePR0M3TH3AN ✝️ 🥩 🍊 10mo ago

https://chatgpt.com/share/67b0c6b4-6264-800e-a42b-dc06c026eb55

SimplifiedPrivacy.com 10mo ago

I believe there is a fundamental misunderstanding here. I'm saying the government is using AI enslave you with surveillance-powered enforcement and mass manipulation of all knowledge. They want you to not read anything, and just obey what that spits out. The old SEO just mirrored society, but the new algorithms shape it.

And you're asking the AI if I'm right?!

thePR0M3TH3AN ✝️ 🥩 🍊 10mo ago

So giving people access to more information faster, from more sources than ever before is leading us to enslavement...?

Sorry, but thats not a very strong argument.

And I don't respect scare tactics to sell users products or services they don't need.

There are tons of ways to use AI. And it took me less than 30 sec to know exactly why Mullvad is still the best VPN provider around.

SimplifiedPrivacy.com 10mo ago

True or false:

The creators of AI shape what it outputs

?

thePR0M3TH3AN ✝️ 🥩 🍊 10mo ago

True: The creators of any particular AI tool (or search engines, websites, books...) influence its outputs through design decisions, training data selection, and fine tuning. If the training data is common and reliable, the model's responses will be more cohesive and factual. Distortions or biases in the data harm the models testing and user performance. This is why early #woke AI models like Google's suck and as they removed those perspectives and guardrails, the models performance improved. Its still nowhere near as good as OpenAI but you see the point.

SimplifiedPrivacy.com 10mo ago

For some things, like a neutral subject such as pet hair, AI may be indeed a great tool

But for something advertised as "suppressed by big tech", with new original thoughts from the creator, in a brand new podcast... you're essentially saying "I do not care what you think. I only refer to the exact authority you're disputing"

In which case, there is no real purpose of Nosr. As you're saying you only have blind loyalty to the dictators over at Google

thePR0M3TH3AN ✝️ 🥩 🍊 10mo ago

There are literally hundreds of AI models made by various companies and open source projects that anyone can use. It's no different than a book, website or search engine. If you don't like the answer then use a different tool.

The references in the Deep Research article that I generated were extremely thorough. So yes, I do trust that comprehensive research over your assertion against Mullvad.

SimplifiedPrivacy.com 10mo ago

Hey man, I understand your skepticism but allow me to re-frame this.

Our organization is mostly volunteers who create content and do development/programming at below market rates for the cause of liberty. We have both identified and then presented original solutions to the problems of Mullvad. These ideas are not widely debated, because there is a low profit margin in doing so. The VPN companies, Big Tech, and government are all very interested in suppressing them. And it requires a high attention and tech interest to comprehend them.

We are going against the grain, to innovate and develop solutions. This particular audio podcast may indeed have been miss-marketed. However, the points are solid. If you're interested in hearing honest and true criticism of mainstream products, and then solutions and ideas for those problems, this is it.

However, if you are just going to be pessimistic, without any actual flaw in the ideas, unfortunately our organization does not have time to devote to helping you. Further, it is unclear why you are interacting with us, if you do not want to hear our expertise on the exact subject the entire channel is about. Best of luck

thePR0M3TH3AN ✝️ 🥩 🍊 10mo ago

https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/9b0e6a43-b53a-4d3f-9850-e2ddf0339322/audio

Wish your VPN worked on Artix with dinit.

SimplifiedPrivacy.com 10mo ago

Yeah sorry, the browser-only graphical environments won't launch on that. But even just the layer-1 systemwide might launch, and/or can plug configs into the official WG app. Does the official WG app from the protocol devs work on Artix?