With a name like this, I’m reminded that privacy is only as good as your entry node being used widely/not being too “obscure.”
<a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/harvard-bomb-threat" rel="nofollow">https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/harvard-bo... is a good example: because the person making the threat was one of the few people on the campus network using Tor at the time the threatening emails were sent, he was identified as a suspect.
If an activity is traced to the Obscura network, and your network activity shows you as one of few people using it at the time - or, if you’re using it for completely unrelated things and are unlucky enough to have accessed at the same time someone else used the network for illegal activity - you could be at risk.
I take your point, but I think Obscura's design would make this a bit more difficult. It would be difficult to distinguish Obscura users from regular Mullvad users. Firefox offers free VPN through Mullvad, so presumably it's not that distinctive to be using Mullvad's network.
btown · · focus · HN ↗
<a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/harvard-bomb-threat" rel="nofollow">https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/harvard-bo... is a good example: because the person making the threat was one of the few people on the campus network using Tor at the time the threatening emails were sent, he was identified as a suspect.
If an activity is traced to the Obscura network, and your network activity shows you as one of few people using it at the time - or, if you’re using it for completely unrelated things and are unlucky enough to have accessed at the same time someone else used the network for illegal activity - you could be at risk.
Flimm · · focus · HN ↗