We invite you to read the final report of our third security audit, concluded in mid-June 2023, with many fixes deployed late June 2023. Further re-tests and a verification pass was performed during July.
- Radically Open Security found no information leakage or logging of customer data
- RoS discovered 1 High, 6 Elevated, 4 Moderate, 10 Low and 4 info-severity issues during this penetration test.
Good VPN.
Keep it up, guys. Mullvad is since years my go to VPN.
Happy customer for years.
It’s a shame port forwarding is not supported anymore, but I’m thinking of other ways to supply the deficiency instead of switching providers.
Mullvad is a great vpn, one of the best for sure. Unfortunately because they don’t support portforwarding the product is not a option for me anymore. I switched to airvpn and am satisfied with it.
I never really used a VPN, what is your usual use case and what exactly would I need port forwarding for?
I use it for downloading torrents without leaking my IP. If you can’t portforward you are limited to downloading torrents. You won’t be able to upload, or at the very least your upload speeds will be very slow. If your primary use case is torrents portforwarding is important. It allows you to open a port and be able to upload.
Forgot one point
- got in trouble for not offering port forwarding anymore
Getting in trouble? It’s more like:
- Server providers threatening to terminate business with Mullvad because some of its users used port forwarding to host contents that meant legal trouble.
- Mullvad chose to terminate support for port forwarding in a transparent way and gave clear dates to prepare. This was done instead of selling off their users or collaborating with whatever legal threats they were facing.
I don’t like it, but at least I understand their business decision. Even if I took my business elsewhere, they have a solid point on transparency.
Yeah I had to move to another provider over this. It’s sad, I like their policies and services, but it’s a deal breaker.
I’ve used it to open a local port on my laptop publicly without needing to make any changes to the local network I was on. It can be useful for opening your laptop’s ssh port or to host an http server to send someone a big file you don’t want to pay to upload somewhere.
One other common use is 🏴☠️ which I suspect is why they disabled the service :/
