{"slug": "daita-vs-a-global-passive-adversary", "title": "DAITA vs a global passive adversary", "summary": "Mullvad's DAITA protocol, which the VPN provider developed to resist AI-based packet analysis by obscuring packet patterns, is the subject of a Privacy Guides forum discussion asking how effective DAITA would be against a global passive adversary capable of observing all or nearly all internet traffic. The poster notes that Jonah, in a video about connecting to Tor through a VPN, argued a global passive adversary is unlikely to exist for good reasons, and asks how DAITA would fare if one did.", "body_md": "[blibly](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/u/blibly)\n1\n \nFor those who don’t know, a global passive adversary is an adversary capable of passively observing all or nearly all internet traffic across the globe. [DAITA](https://mullvad.net/en/vpn/daita) is a protocol developed by Mullvad to resist AI-based packet analysis by obscuring packet patterns. I remember Jonah saying in a video about connecting to Tor through a VPN that a global passive adversary is unlikely to exist, for pretty good reasons. But if one did exist, how effective would DAITA be at resisting it?", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/daita-vs-a-global-passive-adversary", "canonical_source": "https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/daita-vs-a-global-passive-adversary/40930#post_1", "published_at": "2026-09-22 21:46:41+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-22 21:54:12.206098+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-safety", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Mullvad", "DAITA", "Privacy Guides", "Tor", "Jonah"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/daita-vs-a-global-passive-adversary", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/daita-vs-a-global-passive-adversary.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/daita-vs-a-global-passive-adversary.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/daita-vs-a-global-passive-adversary.jsonld"}}