Korben
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Korben is a French tech blogger covering privacy, security news, open source tools, and small web projects, with an English edition.
What HN saysHN commenters cite it for reports on the French tax authority data breach and on a Mullvad co-founder funding a Swedish far-right party.
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rvz · 2026-08-18
First the French Tax authority [0] and now the Berlin Government in Germany.
If a breach is confirmed with stolen data, lets see if by their own GDPR rules will they pay their own fine.
[0] https://korben.info/en/france-tax-authority-data-breach-680000-taxpaye…
mort96 · 2026-07-22
Founder and CEO funded a Swedish far right party. They stood for roughly 72% of what that party took in.
https://korben.info/en/mullvad-cofounder-funding-far-right.html
Mullvad has tried to paint it as, "this does not represent Mullvad the company, this is a private political donation" and stuff like that. I don't buy it. Funding Mullvad funds the CEOs.
EDIT: This is getting downvoted. Is it wrong? To my knowledge, this is a fair re-telling of the facts.
Shortness8 · 2026-06-29
Some commentary here: https://korben.info/en/mullvad-cofounder-funding-far-right.html
Daniel Berntsson is still involved with Mullvad and part-owns Mullvad's parent company with his co-founder.
Xoros · 2017-06-28
I think the point is much "do I trust a third party service ?" not regarding the techs involved.
I read a story from a blogger [1] who was visiting an Airbus facility for an A350 presentation and when he came back in plane, his neighbor, an Airbus sensitive contractor, was editing internal documents on a Chromebook using google doc. Yep. No fear.
[1] https://korben.info/vous-proteger-de-lespionnage-industriel-cest-bien-…