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		yencabulator on April 1, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: XZ Backdoor: Times, damned times, and scams You seem to assume Mullvad stores something that allows correlating a Mullvad account to a specific incoming envelope. Or that they store something that allows correlating an IP+time to a Mullvad account.

transpute on April 1, 2024 [–]

Correlation is about combining metadata to incrementally narrow datasets.

When a VPN provider isn't cooperative, metadata can be sought upstream.

Mullvad deserves much credit for accepting non-digital payments, which increases the cost of deanonymization.

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