A VPN provider who wouldn't be subject to a search warrant? I suppose only one operating from a country where warrants aren't required for a search by police, but that would presumably be much worse.
What's happened here is the best way it could possibly go. A warrant was needed which meant prosecutors / police had to meet a certain bar to conduct a search, and when the search happened the data does not exist anyway. That's exactly what you want from a VPN. This isn't "a shame", it's cause of celebration that the process actually worked and the provider can clearly demonstrate that.
I guess the only alternative would be a country which passes a law saying that VPN data (or something including VPN data) could never be searched, but that's extremely unlikely of any country at the moment.
To a legal inquiry via search warrant? Probably not unless it's operated in a country that doesn't have search warrants, but that sounds more like a lawless wasteland.
You'd need every government to agree not to peer with them, otherwise you'd just route to whoever has agreed to peer. You might get shit latency, but it'd still work.
Getting everyone to agree not to peer seems like a rather tall order.
Because the whole point of the article is that there was no data to be compromised. If anything this should make you more likely to go with Mullvad if you're looking for VPN services.
Reading no more than the title, making up the article content in your mind, and writing a comment based on that made up content is a pretty good recipe for downvotes.
I have to wonder what would have happened had the same thing occurred in the US. I'm really struggling to think of a scenario where the police have a warrant that says "$THING is on computers at this company, go get them" and you have literally any chance of convincing them that $THING is not anywhere.
I could see them taking all the computers then six months later saying "here you can have them back now, come pick them up at the precinct and here's the storage bill."
I think one issue is, anyone who maybe could avoid the legal process would be located in the country and/or operate in a way …. where are you might not trust the business anyway.
Mullvad and how they operate seem to be the best choice for consumer vpn.
Is there an alternative VPN provider that wouldn't be subject to this?
Huh? Why all the downvotes all of a sudden? this is a genuine question.