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This is hilariously out of context.
The actual product they’re developing (not available for purchase yet) is a vape that does the opposite, to help you get off of vaping.
But for an innovation contest, they reversed how it works. It is way funnier and more attention grabbing this way. AFAIK there are no plans to ever commercialize this version.
Afaik, they were forced to log and report IP addresses for the user’s mail logins.
They can’t do that for their VPN, though, so I’ve seen some people recommend you create your account through another VPN or via their Onion service, and then only connect with the VPN on.
This seems fragile at best, and isn’t helped by the fact the most anonymous payment option they accept is cash by mail, which is still quite traceable. They also take bitcoin, which is extremely traceable.
If they expand to accept Monero, I’ll reconsider, but for now I’m sticking with Mullvad. I use mailbox.org for mail, which does log IP addresses (for 4 days), but it is a separate account from my VPN so I don’t really care.
I’m also put off by their recent posts supporting the Republican Party. It is really strange for a privacy company to support authoritarians, and the addition of them leaving Mastodon but staying on Xitter doesn’t inspire much confidence in them.
Thank you ! I’ll go check that out 🙂
I wish I could seed but Mullvad doesn’t allow port forwarding, and ProtonVPN has given out IPs under court order so I don’t trust them for any purpose.
I’ll have to look into other VPNs I think, because I’m ideologically very much for seeding.
There’s envy but jealousy is missing. It’s only 5 sins !!
Full disk encryption with a LVM inside a LUKS arrition is pretty easy to setup, arch wiki is very helpful for that ! You can even encrypt most of the bootloader, so the drive is 100% useless if stolen.