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Seth For Privacy

How did you end up creating Obscura?

Reproducible builds in a nutshell

Investigating iCloud Relay

What is Obscura, and why did you feel it was a necessary privacy tool?

How do you view Obscura in the broad ecosytem of privacy tools for networking?

Why was Mullvad the partner of choice for Obscura's launch? Do you have plans to add more "exit node" partners down the line and give users a choice for that portion of their connection?

Comparing Obscura to "just" using Mullvad in terms of throughput and latency

What's to stop Obscura and Mullvad from colluding to break the core improvement that Obscura brings over a traditional VPN?

What other aspects of Obscura really excite you?

Wen Monero support?!?

Wen autoconnect at launch?

Wen Android?!?

Listener Questions

What was the biggest technical challenge you faced building Obscura, and what do you anticipate next?

Is port-forwarding on the roadmap?

Will you add tracker or ad-blocking via DNS to Obscura?

How are you prioritizing between what platforms to expand to next?

The next step for VPNs w/ Carl Dong from Obscura