The Police Raided This VPN Company...

hello guys and gals me moodahar and VPN

company just got raided by the cops now

not just it's a little over a week to be

honest but I wanted to let the story

ferment a little bit because I wanted to

get all the details so I'd only had to

make one video not like 10 follow-ups

okay now how do you find out your VPN

company that you buy all right the the

service you buy is good enough when they

get raided by the cops and the cops get

nothing so of course ladies and

gentlemen movad which is something I

showed you a while back not too long ago

said the national operations Department

of the Swedish police has visited molvat

VPN with a search warrant with the

intention to seize computers with

customer data no customer data was

compromised so of course according to

these uh individuals they basically

showcased a policy where customer data

did not exist we argued they had no

reason to expect to find what they were

looking for and any seizures would

therefore be illegal under Swedish law

after demonstrating that this is indeed

how our service works and then

Consulting the prosecutor they left

without taking anything so yeah molvat

VPN is a VPN service that's been

operating for 14 years and they are the

most heavy when it comes to privacy I

know that there's a lot of sponsorships

on YouTube you'll find from VPN

companies because usually they're the

most consistent they pay a lot and in

general I would like to say most VPN

services are good enough now when we get

a sponsor read for VPN Services I've

talked to other Tech YouTubers about it

other privacy focused YouTubers and

generally the questions we ask any VPN

company coming to us is are you under

you know jurisdiction are you under

surveillance are you required to give up

data and how do you preserve your data

generally we go with the best uh Graces

that a VPN company offers us if they

tell us something we we tend to really

uh you know ask them every question we

grill

and if we're satisfied with the

questions we'll go forward with

sponsorships but regardless of whatever

sponsorships I have if I break them

today by saying that molvat VPN is the

best service out there when it comes to

actually focused on your privacy then

I'm willing to burn a few Bridges let's

be honest here mull that VPN is one

service that exists where you can

basically go over there to show you how

privacy focused they are and I gotta

remember to block out my City from here

because they're trying to tell me not

using molvat VPN here's your location

buddy now making a new account on movad

is about the easiest thing one could

imagine by going to account you

basically do not have any password or

username from what I understand you

basically create a new account you

generate an account number so they've

literally made a fresh account for me

it's the only identifier I have and

especially effectively over here you can

use cryptocurrencies like Monero which

are privacy focused to add money in all

right so basically five euros a month is

basically their going rate and once you

have access to it you get like five uh

user accounts to work with five devices

and that's pretty much the gist of it

okay so they are even purchasing service

on on uh mulvad VPN pretty much relies

on you going the Privacy focused route

you could literally mail them cash

anonymously if you wanted just to get

access to the service it it they

literally give every option available

okay I'm pretty sure you can barter with

like beaver pelts if you wanted to now

of course the question has always been

cure our day oh boy if the glowies get

access and raid them will they get

anything apparently the Swedish police

did not get a single bite of data

because the methods that movadvpn used

were quite ingenious so what are the

policies of a company like molvat for

instance okay for instance right over

here they operate out of Sweden and of

course they talk about the covert

surveillance of data act where they

literally read out the actual act for

you they tell you exactly everything

about it the various Scopes into it and

of course how they actually get by so

there's a lot of collect user data in

India and other countries does this

affect malvad mull that does not collect

user data it's based in Sweden and none

of the Swedish regulations can force VPN

providers to secretly collect traffic

related data we also have no servers

infrastructures or any staff in India

and of course this reflects for any part

of the world now of course what do they

get by over here so this is where you're

going to get a little bit educational

ladies and gentlemen all right this is

how you can figure out if you uh are

safe with the VPN service you use so of

course this is a good graph to tell you

five eyes nine eyes and 14 eyes now if

you have a VPN service that's

headquartered in any country we're about

to list right now you're not safe so for

instance if you have a VPN service that

you bought that's headquartered in the

USA the United Kingdom Canada Australia

and New Zealand then uh you're

because the cut because the country's

governments over here can at any moment

request or subpoena data which could

incriminate you or any user that's on

their service then of course you got

nine eyes which are four extra countries

Denmark France Holland and Norway so

you're also screwed there and then of

course you've got Germany Belgium Italy

Sweden and Spain ah you say but muda

Sweden isn't that where Mo that is again

based on how they absolutely utilize uh

no logging policies which again their

entire service is based around literally

not maintaining any form of user data on

their servers so for instance they don't

lock traffic they don't log DNS requests

no logging of connections no logging of

IP addresses no logging of bandwidth no

logging of account activity except the

total simultaneous connections and

generally when it comes to services like

this I would have been wary of all that

VPN until they effectively got rated

honestly this raid was probably the

greatest thing to happen to them because

it just reinforces the fact that they

were privacy focused in the first place

so literally how this happened were six

officers literally raided their offices

with search warrants with the data with

basically the intent to take their hard

drives and the computers that were

hosting these servers as they believed

literally because they weren't logging

anything they didn't take a single hard

drive and they walked off into the

sunset absolutely shaking their fists at

a wasted search warrant now to

understand the reason why mulvad was

rated was because they were so heavily

focused on privacy this was one way for

the government and all these agencies to

go in because they were under the

assumption that there were some serious

illegal actions that were taking place

and don't get me wrong molvat VPN is

probably one of the best vpns if you

want to do something illegitimate

because of the low logging policy look

I'm all for privacy focused vpns but I

understand technology like this can be

used for very good reasons like

protecting your anonymity but also it

can be used by genuinely evil people to

actually do really evil things whether

it be sell illegal products or sell

illegal Services then you've also got

other vpns that were kind of like mall

that so for instance this one was called

VPN lab which actually did get shut down

rated by uh the police over in Europe so

of course ladies and gentlemen to

understand these Services exist for a

very specific clientele but malvad has

been in for 14 years and has pretty much

been providing absolute privacy for the

average AMD now of course let's get down

to the little update ladies and

gentlemen what did the Swedish police

answer when it came to their protocol

request so of course since the events of

the search warrant at mulvod's office in

Gothenburg we have tried to get a hold

of documents and protocols tied to the

operations they wanted to know exactly

what the hell was going on since then

mull that has requested a search warrant

signed by the prosecutor as well as the

house search protocol by the police

which of course is obligated to be drawn

according to Swedish law man they really

really really know how to play the legal

system like a fiddle dude so then

basically they got a response from the

Swedish prosecution Authority and the

prosecutor in charge and they told us

that the search warrant was made with

legal cooperation with Germany which is

even spicier because if you have

operated the internet in Germany you

know that the government over there has

a really really tight grip on the

internet in fact even Germans can even

prevent some of my content or your

content from showing up on their Shores

I know at least like four tweets of mine

in like the last three years have had

like the email from the German

government that apparently like my

content wasn't good enough I think I

quote tweeted some people and that just

wasn't available in German like Waters

or German land and and of course when it

comes to the Germans uh yeah there's no

doubt in my mind that that was the one

country that wanted to actually put

pressure on the swedes to look into this

so they sent them this letter over here

which look I'm not able to read this

language we're just gonna go with the

translations uh the Swedish prosecution

authorities received a request for an

international judicial cooperation from

Germany regarding a case going on in

that state in accordance with this

request on February 17 2023 I granted a

search of the premises of molvat bpn the

decision was implemented on April 18th

so of course the German cops uh the

German State wanted to go in and they

thought that oh we might get

something only for them to realize that

there's cross international judicial act

wasn't exactly gonna pan out the way

that they wanted

so during the investigations which by

the way are still ongoing and IP address

is found that led to the VPN service

mull that the direction is not directed

towards a VPN service which the

prosecutors writes uh basically you sent

six officers so while Sweden is part of

a country which does work with other you

know Nation surveillance States uh which

absolutely love to spy on their users

and left to spy on the average person

and love to get access to data which

honestly they really shouldn't uh

basically mull that takes advantage of

Swedish law and tries to make the actual

privacy focused browser so if anything

this has been the best advertising for

the company ever and honestly nothing

makes me more excited and bricked up

than to see the goddamn glowies get

something given back to them now of

course malvat hasn't just stopped there

I believe this year they even created a

brand new browser with the fellows over

at the tour project which literally you

can get into download and actually use

to get even further privacy on the

internet now I'm a brave user so I

really don't get much of a benefit from

mulvad's browser but hey if you really

wanted a browser that was there with a

lot of safeguards in present not

something you'd see on base chromium

that's for sure and this is probably the

one for you and you know honestly given

in recent times with the restrict act

and especially what's been happening

with adult sites in Utah right now vpns

have absolutely gotten like the the

interest in them has spiked if you don't

know what's been going on in the United

States there's a few laws that have been

passing where they're basically creating

an age verification check so in 2022

Louisiana passed a law basically

requiring the use of age verification on

websites that contain 33 percent of

adult content so again this is a website

which requires you to actually verify

with a user government identification

just so you can access it now of course

plenty of other uh states have actually

brought this bill in California for

instance had it before the committee

actually canceled it Texas has it where

it's passed the Senate and of course

Course Utah very recently actually had

it signed by the governor now of course

the idea with this law is kind of nice

on paper it's there to prevent a lot of

children from accessing adult content

which again I really have no problem

with I don't care you know at the end of

the day you know kids are probably going

to get access to whatever but adding a

bit of you know extra friction to it

probably isn't a bad idea now again

that's just looking at it from the nice

way when the government starts

collecting identification based on what

websites you're going to you gotta

imagine that ID is being stored

somewhere by the government and not the

safest manner imaginable the

government's not good at any form of

cyber security recently Texas just had a

massive Cyber attack I say recently as

of a few hours before I filmed this now

of course even when it comes to the

government locking that information I

don't really find it nice so the

government maintains logs of people

going to certain websites that are over

the age of 18 because laws like this yes

if they say it's 33 adult content that's

a pretty low threshold to be requiring

ID checks could you imagine if the

government decided to go into any

website that promoted dysentery or

promoted anything where like or sorry

not dysentery that's like bad any

website that promoted sort of like

descent or any website that you know was

a little bit critical of the government

something could be applied like this a

law could vaguely be applied again I'd

have to read it just to really get the

true metrics of it but the moment you

start ID checking and age gating or

sorry ID gating the internet is the

moment that the last Bastion of Freedom

has completely ceased to become the last

Bastion of freedom and of course it's

because of this that people in the state

of Utah literally were looking at VPN

Services according to Trend searches at

Google it literally spiked up in the

last few days Utah alone having 100

search interests going on just because

of such a law passing ladies and

gentlemen it's a wild world we live in

okay VPN services are important and when

it comes to the one you want just do a

bit of research don't buy from a

surveillance country and at the end of

the day by which you can afford anything

to obfuscate your IP or just connect to

other parts of the world don't let Big

Brother control your internet traffic

don't let Big Brother tell you what you

can and cannot access and don't let Big

Brother spy on you every day I'm not

saying a VPN is 100 security right there

just as soon as you flick it on but

having it as a part of your tool belt

alongside privacy focused browsers and

various Solutions is the ultimate thing

you need in today's day and age that

being said ladies and gentlemen the

cyberpunk World of Tomorrow is actually

a reality today if you like what you saw

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