Mullvad VPN - Infrastructure audit completed by Radically Open Security - eviltoast

We invite you to read the final report of our third security audit, concluded in mid-June 2023, with many fixes deployed late June 2023. Further re-tests and a verification pass was performed during July.

  • Radically Open Security found no information leakage or logging of customer data
  • RoS discovered 1 High, 6 Elevated, 4 Moderate, 10 Low and 4 info-severity issues during this penetration test.
  • Mkengine@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    I never really used a VPN, what is your usual use case and what exactly would I need port forwarding for?

    • Robboman93@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I use it for downloading torrents without leaking my IP. If you can’t portforward you are limited to downloading torrents. You won’t be able to upload, or at the very least your upload speeds will be very slow. If your primary use case is torrents portforwarding is important. It allows you to open a port and be able to upload.

    • Mousepad@burggit.moe
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      1 year ago

      Usual use case is just privacy or sometimes getting around region-locked content. I personally have very sadly switched away from Mullvad as well due to the lack of port-forwarding. My ISP does not allow it and I use it to play certain games with friends (I do not want to pay to host a server to do something once a week).