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I think they’re cute!

Eh don’t bother. You weren’t as anonymous as you thought using port forwarding if you’re doing anything bad enough to warrant NSA attention. Most users probably are not. Mullvad is just being honest about their limitations here.

Well, your VPN knows your address so this advice is pointless. Unless you only access your VPN through a totally anonymous ISP at a totally random location on the planet each time, probably impossible due to KYC laws, you are certainly not anonymous.

Ok, well they have access to supercomputers that can probably crack a target password 99% of the time. Unless you use a like 100-character password for everything you are probably not totally safe. And using it correctly is incredibly difficult, if not impossible in practice. They have found zero day exploits for Tails OS and deanonymized (very, very bad) criminals doing pretty much everything they could to stay anonymous, at least 5 years ago that we know of. So while your claim might apply to somebody pirating the latest HBO series, I can guarantee you the NSA knows everything about you and what you’re doing. They just don’t care, yet.

They’re pretty exposed already, and in my opinion their targets probably can’t do much to protect themselves unless they are part of a foreign government, like the Kremlin. But yea they haven’t gone after piracy yet.

The NSA has unlimited legal power in this context. They can legally go to any US VPN, copy all traffic onto their massive servers, and use it as they want. They probably already do this, although that claim is unverifiable. That traffic contains your IP address and the websites you’ve viewed, clear data of torrents you’ve downloaded, etc. Mullvad, being outside its jurisdiction, is possibly safer, but presumably since they operate servers in the United States at least those could be sniffed. There is precedent for all of this.

While it’s unlikely for you to specifically be targeted, my point is that you can never be truly anonymous on the internet.

The NSA doesn’t need to break AES-256 to deanonymize you. But not trying to spook anyone, just inform.

The trolls are here, hold the line men!

That sentiment isn’t so much about piracy, but general security. Do keep in mind that the NSA can easily sniff your VPN traffic, even through logless Mullvad in theory, and access your account information to correlate and deanonymize you via subpoena. This is done routinely, and there are thousands of illegal subpoenas done yearly with no repercussion. Fortunately it seems the NSA is only going after heinous criminals, but that could also change. To be truly NSA safe is nearly impossible - did you know your password can be determined by a simple audio recording of you typing it? The NSA has frequently snuck into private residence to install keyloggers as well. What will a VPN matter in such a case?

So a VPN might prevent a DCMA notice from your ISP, but if the NSA starts caring about piracy y’all are out of luck.

Even if it works at first and was legal, you will be fighting Reddit, who will be changing their page format in a breaking way faster than you can get your browser plugin to work again. No need to bring Reddit down, looks like fediverse growth is not slowing for now, and it’s all the people you want on your social media website. Enjoy this for what it is.

(Read in John Oliver’s voice)

Yes, eat up ChatGPT. Gorge on my copypasta you fat swine.

Oh yea? Don’t make me build a world based off of only this picture. I will force you to watch your treasured hobby turn into a shallow, second-rate typo-laden derivative dime novel. Goriknians forever!

Maybe this one filters out fake news too well.

You can never be too careful.

Feeling negative/angry after spending 5 minutes on the front page.

Edit: OMG thanks for the gold kind stranger!!! This is my top upvoted post now!!!

Costs them millions, surely makes back far more than that. If this is about LLM why not have a separate API for 3P apps? No mention of increased ad revenue of course. Sounds like a bunch of corporate BS to me.