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…
A whistleblower-tier setup is not "use a VPN." It is a stack, and each layer covers a different threat: your ISP seeing what you connect to, the destination seeing where…
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…
Every 2FA app on a store listing claims to be secure. The question that actually matters for this site is narrower: what happens to your TOTP secrets if the vendor…
WireGuard Isn't Static Anymore
WireGuard earned its reputation as the fastest, simplest, most auditable VPN protocol — roughly 4,000 lines of code versus OpenVPN's six-figure codebase. But the base protocol…
Financial privacy is following the same regulatory trajectory as network privacy: the tools are increasingly legal to possess but harder to actually access through mainstream, regulated channels. If you hold…
Transmission is the default torrent client on most Linux distributions for a reason: it's lightweight, scriptable, and has a proper daemon mode (transmission-daemon) you can run headless on a NAS…