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Your cloud servers, home lab, and laptop need to talk to each other without exposing ports to the open internet. But standard VPNs don’t scale to many endpoints. That’s where Nebula comes in. Nebula is an open-source overlay networking tool from Slack Technologies (17,553 GitHub stars). Instead of routing everything through a central gateway like traditional VPNs do, Nebula creates a peer-to-peer mesh. Every node talks directly to every other node — if the network allows it. On top of that, it uses the Noise Protocol Framework for encryption, a built-in certificate authority for authentication, and lighthouse nodes for peer discovery. ...

Last week we reported Chat Control was dead. But it turns out that was only half the story. On July 10, the European Parliament passed Chat Control 1.0 — a limited version of the mass surveillance proposal that had privacy advocates up in arms for the last two years. But here’s the tricky part: what got rejected on July 8 was an alternative, more aggressive draft. What passed on July 10 was the final, narrower bill. Two different texts, one massive information gap. ...

Getting a self-hosted VPN up with a proper WireGuard setup usually means wrangling systemd services, firewall rules, and config files for half an afternoon. The hwdsl2/wireguard-install script changes that — one command, five minutes, you’re done. And it comes from the same developer behind the 28,000+ star IPsec/L2TP VPN server installer. What It Does This is a Bash-based VPN server installer that automates the entire WireGuard deployment on Linux. Run it once and it handles kernel module checks, package installation, firewall configuration (iptables/nftables), and client profile generation. Plus, it spits out a QR code so you can import the config into the WireGuard mobile app without touching a text editor. ...

The European Parliament rejected Chat Control 1.0 this week. It would have forced Signal and WhatsApp to scan every private message. Quick verdict: it’s a genuine win for end-to-end encryption. But here’s the catch that almost every news outlet missed. Still, your ISP is watching. And the EU’s ePrivacy Regulation still lets them. What Just Happened With EU Chat Control Chat Control 1.0 was an EU rule. It would force messaging apps to scan all user content — even encrypted messages — for CSAM. So it sounds reasonable on the surface. But privacy researchers and EDRi spotted a big problem. ...

On March 27, the European Parliament voted down Chat Control 1.0 — the controversial proposal that would have required messaging platforms to scan private messages for illegal content. For anyone who uses Signal, WhatsApp, or a VPN, this is a major privacy win in Brussels this year. But here’s the part that most news headlines are missing: the rejection doesn’t mean surveillance stops. So it just means the battle shifts to a different front. ...

If you are reading this, you probably already use a VPN. Good. That means your ISP cannot see which sites you visit, and the websites you visit cannot see your real IP address. Still, here is the uncomfortable truth: in 2026, a VPN alone covers maybe 40% of your digital footprint. The other 60% leaks through channels most VPN marketing conveniently ignores. (And if you are still using a free VPN, the situation is worse — as we documented in our free VPN safety analysis.) ...

Most VPN users run the full tunnel. Every app, every browser tab, every background service — all of it goes through the encrypted pipe. Simple, safe, and slow. Split tunneling changes that. It lets you pick which traffic takes the VPN route and which goes straight to the internet. The result: banking apps that don’t flag you as a foreign login, streaming services that load at full speed, and encrypted protection for everything else — all at the same time. ...

Mullvad removed port forwarding in May 2023, leaving thousands who relied on it for seeding Linux ISOs hunting for alternatives. ProtonVPN added it back by mid-2024. And NordVPN had run dedicated P2P servers the whole time. Yet most torrenting VPN guides still quote feature matrices from 2024. So we spent two weeks testing eight major VPNs under real torrent workloads. Ten-gigabyte Linux ISOs on public trackers with 300+ seeders. Sustained seeding across 48 hours. And Wireshark running on the side to verify which “no-log” claims hold up. ...

WireGuard is fast, modern, and refreshingly simple. And you’re connected within seconds — set a private key, configure a peer. But simplicity has a blind spot — there’s no multi-factor authentication. If a private key leaks, your VPN is wide open. WAG changes that. What Is WAG? — WireGuard MFA Gateway But WAG (NHAS/wag, v9.1.10) is a self-hosted authentication gateway that plugs directly into WireGuard. So you get security keys (WebAuthn), SSO (OIDC), system authentication (PAM), and TOTP codes — all from one gateway. Think of it as a focused MFA layer for teams already running WireGuard, not a full zero-trust platform, just the authentication piece that WireGuard leaves out. ...

Sure, WireGuard is easy to set up — two key pairs, a config file, and wg-quick up gets you a tunnel in under a minute. But managing multiple clients? Adding a phone, a laptop, a travel router, revoking access — that’s where the friction lives. You end up manually editing configs, generating keys, bumping IPs in the address range. For a 5-device road warrior setup, it’s doable but tedious. But anything bigger than a handful of devices? Total headache. ...