One of the best VPN services on the market just revealed new advanced security features, beefing up its defense against some of the most pressing online threats.
On October 25, 2024, Mullvad VPN unveiled expanded protections against AI surveillance and censorship in two separate announcements. The newly launched DAITA feature, short for Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis, is now also available for its Android VPN app – previously, only Windows, macOS, and Linux users could use it. At the same time, the provider added Shadowsocks obfuscation technology to the WireGuard VPN protocol for its Android and desktop apps.
Keep reading as I explain what these added features are all about and why you should use them.
Fighting back against AI tracking
Mullvad launched DAITA back in May, describing it as “the first step” in the battle against sophisticated traffic analysis. Fully built on an open-source framework – meaning that anyone can check that works as promised – it aims to modify the appearance of data packets sent over the VPN network to prevent snoopers from tracing these activities back to you.
DAITA is a necessary tool as a virtual private network (VPN) can only protect you against some forms of online surveillance – not all.
A VPN encrypts your internet connections so that third parties cannot access the content of the data packet you sent – though they can still see them moving – whilst spoofing your real IP address location. Put simply, when you’re using a VPN or even the more secure Tor Browser, you can still be vulnerable to traffic analysis.
As Jan Jonsson, CEO of Mullvad VPN, explains, artificial intelligence has made traffic analysis particularly…
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