If I don't care, that my IP gets exposed, than I would not use a VPN in the first place.
(In many places it can trivially linked to your real ID, if there is a court order)
Unless the use case is circumventing region barriers.
(In many places it can trivially linked to your real ID, if there is a court order)
Unless the use case is circumventing region barriers.
If you are just a file sharer or normal low level criminal I doubt the CIA (or whoever may have infiltrated Mullvad) would give anyone your IP.
1. https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/vast/husrannsakan-mot-vpn-...
Just so everyone is clear on a few facts, it is possible for a TLA or agency from another large government to just try to blackbox the VPN nodes and be done with it without needing to infiltrate Mullvad. Just pressure the network provider of the VPN instances to get flow data, and at that point they can match up traffic going in and out and the VPN disappears from the picture.
Or NSO or some other private actor did so, and now every dictatorship has access to it, and we all know how broad their “terrorist” definition can be…
If you are a dissident in Iran, you really should not trust some random VPN. Tor is probably safe enough, but there is also no guarantee, that the chinese are not sharing with them, because as far as I know (but last time I checked has been some years), many nodes are china based. So they might know.
But if all you do is pirating some videos, then this is not something to worry about.