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by croon 1373 days ago
Unimportant trivia from a Swedish speaker:

Mullvad means mole (for the tunnelling more than planted spy connotations, hopefully), and the "Tillit" part of the name means trust.

They're working on some IKEA style naming, which I enjoy.

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Thanks! The other news of today is that we've started a second sister company - Glasklar Teknik AB - which will focus on maintenance and development of System Transparency and Sigsum.

System Transparency: Mullvad's security architecture we'll use to eventually make our running VPN systems transparent.

Sigsum: A transparency log design with distributed trust assumptions (witness cosigning).

Glad to hear it! Both valiant efforts, and good naming here too.

For non-speakers; "Glasklar" means literally "glass clear", but makes more sense to explain as the phrase in Swedish equivalent to "clear as day".

You can say crystal clear in English, it's a bit closer to the original version.