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In February 2026, a Reddit user on r/privacy posted a single sentence: “My phone went to SOS mode at 3 AM and by morning, $47,000 was gone from my Coinbase account.” The post — originally at 55 upvotes — sat at 189 within twelve hours. One hundred twelve comments later, the pattern became painfully clear: the attacker didn’t need the victim’s password. They needed their phone number, and the carrier handed it over. ...

What if you could run a VPN that has no server to compromise? No headquarters for law enforcement to knock on? No centralized logs because there’s nowhere to log? That’s the pitch behind EdgeVPN — a fully decentralized, P2P VPN built on libp2p. But here’s what makes it different from every other VPN I’ve tested: there is no “it.” No company. No server fleet. No subscription page. Every node is an equal peer, and there’s no coordination server, no single exit gateway, no provider to trust. ...

Your Raspberry Pi has been sitting in a drawer. Ragnar gives it a second life as an autonomous network security tool that scans WiFi, hunts vulnerabilities, and even wardrives — all from a headless box with a tiny e-Paper screen. Now, Ragnar is an open-source fork of the Bjorn project by PierreGode, built for the Pi Zero 2W, Pi 4, and Pi 5 as well as headless Debian servers. Plus, it combines network scanning, vulnerability assessment, WiFi analysis, and wardriving into one self-contained package. The project sits at 759 stars on GitHub and is MIT-licensed. ...

If you manage more than one VPS for personal VPN use, you already know the pain. But each node is siloed. WireGuard configs multiply. So there is no single pane of glass for traffic routing, user limits, or live latency monitoring. You either script your way out of it or live with the chaos. hy2scale (FrankoonG/hy2scale) is a Hysteria 2-based mesh relay network that wraps all of that into a web UI. Connect nodes into a mesh, route traffic through any exit, manage users and routing rules from a browser. It runs as a single binary or Docker container and supports six VPN protocols natively. ...

Disclosure: Some links below are affiliate links. If you sign up through them, I may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. NordVPN — tested for Threat Protection Pro; caught phishing attempts in our tests Surfshark — verified no-logs, budget-friendly Layer 2 option On June 29, Reddit quietly started asking some users to upload a photo ID. By July 6, the r/privacy thread had racked up 2,172 upvotes and 437 comments. The message was clear: this isn’t just about Reddit. It’s about where the internet is heading. ...

If you have ever tried to encrypt a file with PGP, you already know the problem — the command line is a wall of arcane flags, and the existing GUI options (GPA, Kleopatra) feel like they have not been updated since 2010. But GpgFrontend changes that. It wraps the same GnuPG engine you trust — plus a modern Rust rPGP backend — inside a clean interface that runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux. ...

When your VPN connection drops for half a second, your ISP sees your real IP. But that’s enough time for a DNS query to slip through, a WebRTC request to expose your location, or a site you’re visiting to log your actual address. So we tested 8 major VPNs across three real-world dropout scenarios to find out which kill switches actually hold the line. But first — the short answer if you just want the one that works: NordVPN’s kill switch passed every scenario we threw at it with zero leaks. We’ll get into the data below. ...

You want a mesh VPN without a central authority. Tailscale works great until it doesn’t — you’re still trusting their coordination servers. And ZeroTier gives you control, but the setup isn’t trivial. EasyTier sits in the middle: full decentralization with a one-liner install. So we spent an afternoon testing EasyTier v2.6 on three Linux nodes across different network environments. Here’s our take. What EasyTier Is EasyTier is a Rust-based mesh VPN that runs on Linux, macOS, Windows, FreeBSD, Android, x86, ARM, and MIPS. It wraps WireGuard encryption (or AES-GCM) into a peer-to-peer mesh where every node is equal. No master server, no cloud dependency, no accounts. ...

**NordVPN routes traffic through 6,300+ servers in 110 countries. ExpressVPN plays a different game — 3,000+ servers but a custom protocol with session-level key rotation. Which one actually protects your data better? (affiliate link) After a week of hands-on testing across 8 global server locations, we’re not handing out a single winner. The honest answer depends on what you’re optimizing for — streaming speed, privacy architecture, or monthly budget. Here’s what our tests revealed. ...

Best VPN for Travel 2026 — Speed, Privacy & Streaming Tested You just landed. Fifteen hours in economy, and all you want is to check your bank balance. That thirty-second connection to airport WiFi could expose your login credentials and every site you browsed in the air. Public WiFi in airports and hotels is a known risk. But the VPN you use at home doesn’t always behave the same way abroad. Server distance adds latency. Network switches trigger IP leaks. Streaming platforms block known VPN IPs. ...