If the NSA is somehow tracking VPN traffic, what do they get? Do they just get metadata about traffic from a VPN to a target server, i.e. they can see someone from Mulvad connected to trumpsux[.]com - won't they still need to see the contents of that request to do anything useful with it?
https://www.wired.com/story/using-a-vpn-may-subject-you-to-nsa-spying/
Okay, roughly this is the scenario. Gov't ask the big internet backbones/providers for all the data. Then they look at time and request size going into a vpn provider, then time and request size coming out of the vpn provider. This metadata correlation then gives the NSA your browsing history. Browser fingerprinting and adware/telemetry fill the rest of the details.
♡ 1 ↻ 0The mitigation is to use Mulvad's fork of Firefox to try to deal with that sort of tracking.
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