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[–] 28 points 7 months ago (2 children)

You do know that you can pay for mullvad in cash?

You can send cash in an envelope to them with your mullvad ID and they will credit your account.

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Let's be realistic, that isn't an equivalent alternative

    Sending mail is pseudo-anonymous at best. It's exceptionally slow. Most importantly, it's insecure to the point where most postal services explicitly recommend against mailing cash

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    How is it not anonymous?

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago

    Because there is a lot of evidence tied to mailing a letter

    • DNA

    • Fingerprints

    • Time and location the letter was mailed from

    • Camera footage of you mailing the letter

    • The letter itself can generally be traced back to where it was manufactured

    • Address handwriting/stamp/sticker

    Even if you scrub anything personally identifying yourself, it still leaves a fairly unique fingerprint. A sufficiently motivated investigator would be able to identify another similar payment without inspecting the actual contents of the letter. Hence pseudo-anonymous

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