Introducing Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis (DAITA) | Mullvad VPN
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Even if you have encrypted your traffic with a VPN (or the Tor Network), advanced traffic analysis is a growing threat against your privacy. Therefore, we now introduce DAITA.

Even if you have encrypted your traffic with a VPN (or the Tor Network), advanced traffic analysis is a growing threat against your privacy. Therefore, we now introduce DAITA.

Through constant packet sizes, random background traffic and data pattern distortion we are taking the first step in our battle against sophisticated traffic analysis.

  • DojanEnglish
    5•24 days ago

    Cheers. Network related stuff isn’t my forte so I really have no idea about the costs. I just figured that the moment you start adding a decent amount of users the costs will go up, and €5 seems like a really fair price.

    • impure9435
      14•24 days ago

      It’s actually the other way around, the more users you have the cheaper everything eventually becomes

      • DojanEnglish
        7•24 days ago

        Economy of scale?

        • impure9435
          5•24 days ago

          Yes, there’s no reason this wouldn’t apply to a VPN provider. It’s also the reason NordVPN or Surfshark is so incredibly cheap.

          They have lots of users -> They can pay lots of money for advertising -> They get more users -> Everything becomes cheaper -> They can pay more for advertising

          You get the point