New ask Hacker News story: Why does the Mullvad installer need 500mb and access to my downloads folder?
Why does the Mullvad installer need 500mb and access to my downloads folder?
2 by geuis | 0 comments on Hacker News.
I've only heard good things about this product, in terms of their non-tracking/non-logging policies. However 2 red flags immediately just went off. First, their installer is 500mb. Half a gig? Its a VPN, something that can be done extremely secure with builtin software and/or openssh. And it denied installing itself until I gave permissions to access my downloads folder. These seem like glaring issues to me as a new user and entirely antithetical to what Mullvad claims to be doing.
2 by geuis | 0 comments on Hacker News.
I've only heard good things about this product, in terms of their non-tracking/non-logging policies. However 2 red flags immediately just went off. First, their installer is 500mb. Half a gig? Its a VPN, something that can be done extremely secure with builtin software and/or openssh. And it denied installing itself until I gave permissions to access my downloads folder. These seem like glaring issues to me as a new user and entirely antithetical to what Mullvad claims to be doing.
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