[john_strinlai]

>Dismissing Wyden's remarks as "american politics"

its a letter signed by american politicians, addressed to an american agency, about american citizens.

no scare quotes are needed around american politics.

(mullvad is swedish)

[willis936]

And would you classify Snowden's revelations the same?

The pattern is "Wyden rings the bell about a dragnet and then we learn the details about it". It just seems like an extraordinary claim with no extraordinary evidence to say that "person warning about VPN compromises has not motivated any of Mullvad's recent security work". Just provide that evidence for your claim.

[john_strinlai]

>It just seems like an extraordinary claim

what? it's not extraordinary at all. mullvad has a long history of being very security conscious. they do not wait for american politicians to direct their security work. i will stress again, mullvad is a swedish company.

feel free to read the co-founder's HN comment right here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48145679. they found out about the issue via the blog post, looked into it, and fixed it. end of story. (it says as much in the first line of mullvad's blog post too...)