DAITA: Defense Against AI-guided Traffic Analysis

[sturlabragason@lemmy.world]

Agreed!

They have a “Why privacy matters!” guide I keep sending to people;

https://mullvad.net/en/why-privacy-matters

[theimpressivex@lemm.ee]

They did at one point, but they removed it due to constant abuse.

[jimjam5@lemmy.world]

Now I’m curious if the vpn I use will consider a similar approach going forward (PIA).

[apex32@lemmy.world]

How are other VPN services able to do port forwarding without having this problem?

[sunzu2@thebrainbin.org]

They force you to pay with KYC money... No Pedo is stupid enough to be spreading CSAM on that VPN

[dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de]

What’s the benefit of port forwarding when using a VPN?

[yingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

When you torrent you can only connect to peers that have open ports, if your ports are closed. Which means it makes it a lot harder to upload if you rely on private trackers and maintaining a good ratio. One can still download and upload, but for especially older torrents it has a good chance to affect your speeds and ability to download.

[osrsneedsf2p@lemmy.ml]

Seems like it will cost Mullvad more for bandwidth. Great feature overall, very similar to Monero's Dandelion++

[boonhet@lemm.ee]

AirVPN doesn't.

[lapping6596@lemmy.world]

Given how often I see articles where a pedo was caught because they were sending photos over telegram unencrypted or similar. I do think many are that stupid.

[pebbles@sh.itjust.works]

If ya do it right, you can't distinguish the signal from the noise. Encryption makes data look random. So if you send dummy random data then it just looks like constant random data. No signal is distinguishable.

[iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world]

It's nice, but it brought my speeds to a crawl.

[jsparrow@sh.itjust.works]

This is accurate when using the BT protocol. However if you have uTP (Micro Transport Protocol) enabled, it has "support for NAT traversal using UDP hole punching between two port-restricted peers where a third unrestricted peer acts as a STUN server."

[catloaf@lemm.ee]

Much like other criminals, only the stupid ones get caught. Look at how many of those articles say that they'd been doing it for decades. Many more of them are out there right now.