The honest answer is that a free VPN and a paid VPN solve different problems, and the tradeoff isn't "free is worse" so much as "free is funded differently." Understanding…
Two Different Tools Solving Different Problems VPNs and Tor both hide your traffic from your local network and ISP, and both change the IP address that websites see — that…
VPN, proxy, and Smart DNS all reroute your internet connection in some way, and that surface similarity is exactly why people mix them up. But they solve genuinely different problems,…
Fire TV Stick's Fire OS is a modified fork of Android, which is good news for VPN support — most major providers ship a native Fire TV app straight through…
Roku is one of the only major streaming platforms that flatly refuses to let you install a VPN app. There's no sideloading trick, no hidden developer menu, no APK you…
Netflix's Blocking Isn't a Bug — It's Contractual Netflix doesn't block VPNs because it dislikes privacy tools; it blocks them because its content licensing deals are region-specific. A studio might…
Most "VPN speed test" results you'll find online are a single Speedtest.net number run once, on one server, at one time of day — which tells you almost nothing about…
Journalist security in 2026 isn't a checklist you complete once — it's threat modeling against a landscape that now includes commercial spyware deployed by democratic governments, retroactive laws that criminalize…
By Dana Reyes
"Stalkerware" is the term security researchers use for commercial apps sold openly as "parental monitoring" or "employee tracking" software that get installed on someone's phone without their…