[arcfour]

Mullvad predates the Snowden leaks by several years and was not mentioned anywhere in them.

Sure, there are other intelligence agencies, but that's the one I'd be the most worried about. Since either they run it, or they would know of it and want to emulate the idea, or know of it and have access to it from the partner agency running it. Or they are not a threat to me.

There's also the issue of no publicly known cases where someone that used Mullvad being deanonymized through the VPN but instead being discovered through some other opsec failure. If an intelligence agency has this capability they have been sitting on it for almost 2 decades without making use of the data. Hard to believe.

[codethief]

> Mullvad predates the Snowden leaks by several years and was not mentioned anywhere in them.

Wow, I didn't realize Mullvad was this old! Then again, maybe they weren't popular enough back then for intelligence agencies to target them? For instance, Mullvad kinda rode WireGuard's popularity wave by being the first(?) VPN provider to implement the protocol. Big ads on billboards came even later. So maybe they only became a target in recent years?

[omcnoe]

Intelligence agencies use parallel construction to disguise their real methods. Further, more sophisticated methods are reserved for bigger targets. Intelligence agencies aren't running around discussing their methods publicly, most intelligence agency work doesn't result in public criminal charges.

[arcfour]

So they gave away all their other extremely valuable methods in the leaks except for Mullvad?

[adampunk]

I'm not saying I believe the underlying accusation but absence in the Snowden files is absolutely not proof of absence in USFG toolkit.