Unnecessary and deeply concerning bow to the new “king”

Update: position got backed up by an official Proton post on Mastodon, it’s an official Proton statement now. https://mastodon.social/@protonprivacy/113833073219145503

Update 2, plot-twist: they removed this response from Mastodon - seems they realize it exploded into their face!

  • irreticent@lemmy.world
    1·
    6 hours ago

    Less maintained? Did you even read the article you posted?

    “We take these findings extremely seriously and have moved quickly to patch the identified issues,” said a Mullvad spokesperson. “We’re grateful to X41 for their thorough audit, which helps us continually improve our service’s security.”

    Despite the concerning nature of some vulnerabilities, the researchers praised Mullvad’s overall security posture. “The Mullvad VPN Application appears to have a high security level and is well positioned to protect from the threat model proposed in this report,” the audit stated.

    *Edit: just in case anyone is curious, here’s what the deleted comment said:

    https://cybersecuritynews.com/mullvad-vpn-vulnerabilities/

    Yea, let’s switch to some other service that is less maintained because of a compliment to a guy we don’t like.

    @italics2@lemmy.world