I’m sharing this one because I’m curious what more knowledgeable people think about this one. Please take a peek at the article before joining the discussion, as my limited quote might have dropped useful information
The VPN industry runs on a promise. Pick almost any provider and the pitch is the same: “we don’t keep logs.” You hand over your entire internet connection and, in return, you get a pinky-promise that nobody is writing anything down.
For a lot of privacy-minded people, that promise stopped being good enough a while ago. A no-logs policy is only as honest as the company making it, and even an honest company can be hacked, subpoenaed, or quietly acquired.
Obscura VPN is trying to answer to that problem. Instead of asking you to trust its word, it splits the job across two independent companies so that neither one can tie your identity to your browsing. The first hop is Obscura’s own servers; the exit hop is run by Mullvad. a respected VPM company out of Sweden. Your traffic is end-to-end encrypted to Mullvad’s keys, so Obscura literally can’t read it, and Mullvad never sees who you are.
Well mullvad has multihop already with better control than obscura, but it is the same company.
I understand their multihop like that the second server accept all traffic from other mullvad servers without knowing your location, while the first has another wireguard layer so they cant see your traffic. Great and enough if you dont fear mullvad being coerced into changing their logging.
With obscura, mullvad accepts all traffic from obscura servers too, but the servers are operated by different legal entities.
This is made less useful by lower actual technical barriers. Like the servers could be in the same datacenter, while on Mullvad they could be in different countries!
Lots to improve for now but you gotta start somewhere