Privacy Tools

What Is Wireproxy? Wireproxy is an open-source Go application that connects to a WireGuard peer and exposes the connection as a SOCKS5 or HTTP proxy. Unlike a standard WireGuard client — which creates a new network interface and needs root or administrator privileges — wireproxy runs entirely in userspace. You keep WireGuard’s encryption without touching your system’s network stack. The project sits at 5,700+ stars on GitHub, maintained by windtf under the ISC license. It ships as a single static binary for Linux, macOS, and Windows. ...

Most VPN users have heard of Tor. But I2P (Invisible Internet Protocol) operates in a completely different space — it’s an anonymous overlay network built for peer-to-peer communication within its own ecosystem. And i2pd is the leading C++ implementation, one that ditches the Java dependency that makes the official I2P client a memory hog. So what makes i2pd worth knowing about? And more importantly — should VPN users actually care? ...