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The National Operations Department (NOA) of the Swedish police has visited Mullvad VPN with a search warrant, with the intention to seize computers with customer data. No customer data was compromised.
The Belgian version of chat control is nothing but mass surveillance. It’s what the Going Dark initiative call “setting the right narrative”. But the consequences are the same. It’s client-side scanning (state spyware in your phone) of European citizens’ private communication.
A reminder sent to the European Parliament and the European Council: this is what Chat Control and the Going Dark initiative will result in – total surveillance and the end of secure and private communication. You can read the articles at
Chat control is a corrupt proposal pushed forward through undemocratic methods. The Belgian version is no different. The European Council should follow the European Parliament’s lead and reject it.
The proposed EU law Chat control will not only create a centralized mass surveillance system and violate people's privacy. It will also ban open source operating systems as an unintended consequence
Mullvad VPN and the Tor Project today present the release of the Mullvad Browser.
A privacy-focused web browser designed to be used with a trustworthy VPN instead of the Tor Network.
Read the full story and download the browser here.
Our Encrypted DNS servers have now been converted to run from RAM!
This is completely cost-free, and available to anyone that wishes to have a trustworthy, audited Encrypted DNS service with optional content blocking!
Read more here:
The European Commission is currently in the process of enacting a law called Chat control. If the law goes into effect, it will mean that all EU citizens’ communications will be monitored and listened to:
Today we sent 116 pages on mass surveillance and its consequences to each and every member of the EU Parliament. This autumn, we urge them to vote for a free society. To say No to chat control. Read all the articles at
The EU Commission wants to monitor all the citizens of the European union. The law proposal is called
#chatcontrol
– and now is the time to stop it. We took the debate to the streets of Sweden, during the country’s EU-presidency. Take a look at
"The more people who use the Mullvad Browser, the better for privacy. We hope that people join the resistance against mass surveillance, big data gathering and surveillance capitalism,” says Mullvad CEO Jan Jonsson.
Our support emails have moved to self-hosted and Mullvad-owned hardware.
From now on, our Support Team can be reached at a new email address: support
@mullvadvpn
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Learn more here:
We were recently made aware of multiple potential DNS leaks on Android. They stem from bugs in Android itself, and only affect certain apps. We have reported them to Google, and are working on fixes. Read more:
Today we sent a total of 705 brochures, to all the members of the EU Parliament. Just in case they have missed that the EU Commission's chat control proposal violates human rights. We urge them all to vote no. You can download the brochure at
#chatcontrol
We have been made aware of a phishing URL presenting itself as a sponsored Mullvad ad on Google. Please be cautious when clicking on links, taking note of the URLs. We have contacted Google regarding this, and had stopped our advertising on Google as of 1st March.
Not a fan of eavesdropping? We now have a public DNS service up as a beta that offers DNS over HTTPS and DNS over TLS, with QNAME minimization and basic ad blocking. Audited by Assured and only a guide away:
Our latest release on Android (2023.6) includes Post-Quantum WireGuard tunnels, WireGuard obfuscation with TCP, and the ability to search for servers or locations
Today’s Internet is cluttered and surveilled.
We're Mullvad VPN, and even though we're not the whole solution, we believe that getting a privacy-focused VPN is a great start to reclaiming
your online privacy. If you want a change, read our four-step
guide
Bloomberg: For people researching VPN products, there’s one more thing to consider: researching the review sites. “We got emails from these reviewers saying, ‘Hi, guys, No. 5 spot is now for sale,’” says Mullvad’s CEO Jan Jonsson.
We have added another combination to our Encrypted DNS service: family-friendly content content blocking.
This is available to everyone, completely free of charge. Learn more here:
Ylva Johansson – the EU Commissioner in charge for the chat control law proposal – has made several appearances in the Swedish media. It’s obvious that she doesn’t understand her own proposal and the consequences it would have.
Create safe internet spaces for children instead of making the internet unsafe for everyone. We urge all politicians of the EU to take a democratic decision. Stop
#chatcontrol
Read the full story at
We evaluated the impact of the latest TunnelVision attack (CVE-2024-3661) and have found it to be very similar to TunnelCrack LocalNet (CVE-2023-36672 and CVE-2023-35838).
Read more here:
We are counting downs the days until 2024 and are excited about the things that will happen next year. But first, let’s take a look at the special year of 2023. Here is what we remember most fondly.
Now is the time for resistance. To fight for human rights. To free the internet from mass surveillance. Now is the time to stop
#chatcontrol
. We urge all politicians of the EU to take a democratic decision. Read the full story at
“We're into building alternatives in collaboration, in solidarity with other organizations, because this is a big fight. We’re going against big players, so we need to work together,” says Isabela Bagueros, executive director of the
@torproject
If the European Commission’s law proposal
#chatcontrol
becomes reality, a new EU center for mass surveillance will be built. Here are some name proposals from us: Ministry of Truth, Soma or maybe Secret Archives of the Universal State. More suggestions, anyone?
From Tuesday next week we will be performing planned maintenance and deployments on our WireGuard servers that might cause a short disconnection and connectivity disruption.
We thank you for your patience whilst we perform these deploys.
Independent security audit performed on our infrastructure, we are now audited on both the infrastructure and the app! Cure53's statement: “…Cure53 were not able to discover any Personally Identifiable Information attached to Mullvads end-users.”
Chat control violates human rights. The European Commission knows it. They even mention it in the proposal. Let’s keep fighting for privacy, protection of personal data and freedom of expression and information. Stop chat control!
#chatcontrol
This morning we are switching to a different primary database for our Accounts & Payments platform at 08:30 Swedish time. We expect there to be very minimal downtime, and we appreciate your patience whilst we perform this planned maintenance.
@mer__edith
@Snowden
In the beginning of June, it’s time for the citizens of the European Union to elect new Members of the European Parliament. Vote for candidates who stand up for privacy as a human right! 11/11
This is not a drill.
This is no belated April Fool’s.
It may feel like Christmas came early.
Mullvad VPN is officially available for iOS!
#mullvad
#vpn
#privacy
We are upgrading the hardware of our Bitcoin Cash server, payments using this cryptocurrency are temporarily disabled. They will become available within 24 hours.
Apple’s Private Relay feature calls home to Apple servers without respecting the firewall rules of the system, creating a leak that neither we, nor you, can stop without disabling the entire Private Relay feature.
A security assessment of the Mullvad VPN apps has concluded that the app is well-architected from a security perspective. Some issues were found, and they have been fixed to the extent possible.
Handing out Stop Chat Control information outside the Swedish Parliament, where the Swedish Committee on EU Affairs is meeting today. Still waiting for
@sweden2023eu
to oppose the law proposal. Stop
#chatcontrol
We will upgrade our OpenVPN servers 15/05/2023 05:00-11:00 GMT+1 to run OpenVPN 2.6, removing various legacy options. You may experience interruptions to your connections. Guides have been updated for the latest configurations if you do not use our Mullvad VPN app.
"There are only two reasons to promote such laws. Either politicians don't know what they are doing, or that's just an excuse to monitor the whole population," says Jan Jonsson, CEO at Mullvad.
”Protect anonymous sources and whistleblowers.”
@sweden2023eu
says that democratic values are a priority of the Swedish Presidency. Isn’t it about time for journalists to demand answer on this question: the chat control proposal violates human rights – why don’t you oppose it?
“Ylva Johansson is comparing encrypted communications to being able to smell a bag without see what’s inside. You can’t sniff end-to-end encrypted communication without looking at the communication. It’s either encrypted or it’s not.”
As
@mer__edith
said in a keynote speech: “The current attack on end-to-end encryption is very much related to a desire by some in government to return to the less fettered access to surveillance that they see as having lost post
@Snowden
“ 10/11
Looking for a flashy
#VPN
deal this Friday? Your
#privacy
is worth reclaiming any day of the year, which is why our offer always stands. Here’s what makes our pricing model stand out:
Launched today: the Mullvad Privacy Companion Beta browser extension, for Firefox desktop.
Free for anyone (yes, even non-Mullvad VPN customers!) wanting help on their privacy journey. We’d love your feedback!
Learn more and get it here:
The macOS 14 Sonoma betas and release candidate contain a bug that causes the firewall to not filter traffic correctly. As a result, our app does not work.
”The EU’s chat control legislation is the most alarming proposal I’ve ever read. Taken in context, it is essentially a design for the most powerful text and image-based mass surveillance system the free world has ever seen.”
@matthew_d_green
professor at Johns Hopkins University.
The EU’s “chat control” legislation is the most alarming proposal I’ve ever read. Taken in context, it is essentially a design for the most powerful text and image-based mass surveillance system the free world has ever seen.
We need to pay attention to the forces behind this. Both Ylva Johansson’s chat control argumentation and the “Going Dark” rhetoric is like a copy-paste from the FBI Director James Comey back in 2014. 9/11