[throwaway92394]

This isn't meant to be criticism just curious. Why did it take so long to add monero support? For the past several years there's only ~2 other VPNs that tick all the privacy boxes, and you're the most preferable - other then lack of monero support. It always seemed weird that you went so far for privacy, but didn't support monero.

Was it just on the backlog and took a bit of time to implement? I appreciate that you built your own implementation for crypto by the way.

Thanks for the great service.

EDIT: I've heard a rumor that you've shared a user IP because of a government subpoena (live during a connection, so it wasn't logged). Has this happened? I think according to your swedish-legislation page says "However, the Swedish police authority may have access to information by way of coercive measures such as seizure and search of premises." which would allow for this to happen in theory? I.E. intercepting or seizing control of your router to see what IP a connection is on?

EDIT: One other question - is there plans to add more IPs? Services seem to flag most mullvad IPs but I'm not sure there's much you can do about that.

[roastedpeacock]

> Why did it take so long to add monero support?

Some third-parties did sell gift-codes using Monero before Mullvad had native support although I had no experience with them.

> I've heard a rumor that you've shared a user IP because of a government subpoena (live during a connection, so it wasn't logged).

Got any details?

FWIW: Correlating the origin IP with real-time traffic out of a single-hop VPN tunnel can be done using traffic-analysis by third-parties that are not the VPN provider themselves.

[throwaway92394]

> Got any details?

I do not - it's not an accusation, I have no evidence, just a rumor I was curious if they'd care to comment on.

[kfreds]

> Why did it take so long to add monero support? It always seemed weird that you went so far for privacy, but didn't support monero. Was it just on the backlog and took a bit of time to implement?

I don't work with payments and the surrounding systems so I don't know the details of the project itself. As an organization we've certainly been aware of the feature request, but until now we've prioritized other projects.

> EDIT: I've heard a rumor that you've shared a user IP because of a government subpoena (live during a connection, so it wasn't logged). Has this happened?

To my knowledge it has never happened in the history of our service.

> EDIT: One other question - is there plans to add more IPs? Services seem to flag most mullvad IPs but I'm not sure there's much you can do about that.

I'm sure my colleagues in the Operations and Support teams are aware of it. You'll get a better answer from [e-mail].

[throwaway92394]

Thanks so much for the response!