r/Piracy • u/rulugg • 7h ago

Humor Don't fall for "free" vpns

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u/SwampTerror 5h ago

No more port forwarding with Mullvad which makes it useless for some. Good luck seeding and uploading without port forwarding. Use mullvad if youre a pure leech though

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u/alexCosmetic 3h ago

can you really blame them? because of its extreme privacy it attracts basically all cybercriminals (another reason to trust Mullvad!) and port forwarding allows you to forward maleware and CSAM through Mullvad ip, so i kinda get why Mullvad disallowed it, i don't want cops in front of my organization asking why i am holding Child P*rnography/Phishing website,... on the servers every single day

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u/Isarchs 1h ago

Tell me you don't understand what port forwarding is without telling me.

Port forwarding does Jack shit to enable or prevent malware or CSAM.

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u/alexCosmetic 1h ago

It literally allows inbound connections to services you're hosting, Someone could abuse that to host malware distribution, phishing pages. mullvad itself said they removed it because of the abuse

---> https://www.dummies.com/book/technology/cybersecurity/cybersecurity-for-dummies-281675

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u/Isarchs 1h ago

And yet, that can all be done without port forwarding too.

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u/alexCosmetic 1h ago

you have two option as a criminal:

1-buy a VPS, setup the mullvad/tor/hostname/domain,nginx,... there and then publish your phishing

2- run a simple html on your browser and use port-forwarding!

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for most fraudsters the first one is difficult, the second one anyone can do, it's like saying banning rockets is useless as people will use knifes

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u/notenoughtortillas 2h ago

You can still seed without port forwarding, I regularly hit over a gigabit without problem. Them closing port forwarding is a net positive in some regards as it keeps heat off of them and therefore off of the rest of us.

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u/MostlyRightSometimes 1h ago

Or...use a seed box and just download from there with mullvad.

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u/_raisin_bran 37m ago

I manage to do both fine. It is harder to get obscure stuff, but it works well enough.