Mullvad VPN — Strategic Dual-Use Privacy and Network Resilience

A Swedish Founder-Owned Service Assessed for Sovereignty Alignment, Metadata Minimisation, and Denied-Environment Connectivity

Introduction

Mullvad VPN is a European privacy-focused network-security service whose engineering choices centre on minimising metadata exposure and limiting the recoverability of sensitive operational traces in transit and at rest. [1]
In a European strategic environment increasingly framed by defence-industrial readiness, resilience, and constrained str…