@jack, how would you compare Obscura VPN to Mullvad VPN and IVPN?
- Mullvad VPN accepts Bitcoin on-chain, cash and Monero.
- IVPN accepts Bitcoin on-chain, lightning, cash and Monero.
Here’s a great interview @MartyBent did with Viktor from IVPN on @TFTC (RSS Feed)
“Join Marty as he sits down with Viktor from IVPN to discuss online privacy and the surveillance traps set by online companies, including most VPNs.“
Looks interesting, more options is always nice, but you can already do what Obscura does with any VPN that supports multi-hop like Mullvad and IVPN. So I'm not really sure what the hype is about. Anyone know?
It’s most likely some kind of bias. Ownership bias?
Apparently the difference with Obscura is you use different VPN providers for the additional hop. So you don't have to trust Obscura or any single VPN.
"How is Obscura different from my VPN’s multihop?
Multihop VPNs claim they’re more secure because they direct your traffic through multiple servers. But the same provider still controls all of the servers, which means they can correlate your identity with your traffic.
In Obscura, we only control the first hop and use blind third-party relays for the exit hop. The result is that we can never correlate your identity with your traffic as we don’t even see your traffic in the first place!"
yeah, same opsec could be recreated having multi-vendor multi-hop wireguard tunnels, its even not so expensive. But more competition, better services at better prices I hope.
