For sure, need to sort it out. Cheers Jimi 🤙🏻
Correct, run a patched node in front of your preferred version to mitigate any remote vulnerabilities.
Also a great way to quickly identify if consensus changes result in a chain split.
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/
hey Obscura team
congratulations on shipping the first launch release!!
partnering with Mullvad for the second VPN service was a great choice, as they already have a solid reputation.
in regards to the service architecture, WireGuard VPN over QUIC, am concerned that it will not be possible to implement on routers (pfSense, OPNsense, OpenWrt, UniFi etc)?
im currently using a WireGuard mesh (NetBird / Tailscale) to route traffic for remote clients to my LAN, which is then routed outbound via a WireGuard VPN to the Internet. this ensures that all hosts traverse the VPN, regardless of whether they are local or connected via cellular / public Wi-Fi.
if you do enable WireGuard config on routers, would this be directly to the Mullvad servers, bypassing Obscura?
congratulations again on the launch. regardless of whether this service works for my use case, it will be something i will recommend to family and friends!
nice, other than the tax accounting overhead, i imagine this will be a winning strategy in a bull market.
how does this work?
smash buy and then use a Strike debit card over the week / fortnight to pay your bills as usual?
Neuromancer movie?
Yeah, that’s the bird-eating spiders I was telling you about
When boat party?
nope, i havent sorry. did you check if BTCSessions has reviewed them?