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Obscura VPN is a privacy-focused VPN service designed to prevent activity logging by separating user identity and browsing history through a two-party protocol.
The article explains how to self-host services at home behind CGNAT by using a VPS bridge with a WireGuard tunnel to forward traffic, overcoming port forwarding limitations.
A GitHub project that explains principles of network proxies, VPNs, and tunnels, and provides navigation to related tools for internet access, including configurations for tools like Clash Verge Rev.
Two police chiefs in Hunan Shaoyang were dismissed for extorting a tech company boss of 100 million yuan in a VPN software development case.
Wired reviews and compares the best VPN services for 2026, evaluating their features, ease of use, and privacy aspects based on testing.
A user praises Tailscale for enabling their devices to stay connected to their home network remotely, describing the experience as magical.
A newly discovered leak in Android allows malicious apps to bypass VPN tunnels by exploiting keep-alive UDP connections, potentially exposing real IP addresses for tracking or surveillance.
A US senator has asked the NSA to provide public guidance on best practices for using VPNs to secure communications against foreign threats, highlighting gaps in current advice.
A practical guide to maintaining communication channels in Brazil amid increasing internet censorship, detailing past legal actions against services like WhatsApp, Telegram, and X, and offering tools to circumvent restrictions.
A basic networking knowledge primer for users in the AI era, explaining core concepts such as IP, IPv4, IPv6, and NAT in plain language, and using real-world scenarios like proxies, VPNs, and local models to illustrate why understanding underlying network principles matters.
WireGuard is being ported to the Plan 9 operating system, bringing modern VPN capabilities to the niche OS.
Hulios is an eBPF-powered transparent Tor VPN gateway for Linux that secures outbound traffic by redirecting TCP and DNS through an embedded Arti Tor client and Hickory-based DNS resolver, with kernel-level leak protection.
French regulator ANJ has classified Polymarket as illegal gambling, ordered ISPs to block it, and is now targeting users and intermediaries like VPNs. The platform still saw 205k French users in June, setting a precedent for EU regulation of prediction markets.
This article explains how to use the Hurricane Electric BGP tool to find domains bound to neighbor IP segments, and filter those supporting TLS 1.3 and 1.2 for use as reality disguise domains, adapting traffic type based on site content (text-only or media).
The EU Court of Justice ruled that VPNs are lawful technical tools and that VPN providers are not liable for copyright infringement when users bypass geo-blocking, setting a major precedent for digital privacy.
The author rants about the clunkiness of using SSH and VPN to access university HPC clusters for computational chemistry, arguing that the friction discourages independent researchers from doing work and advocates for local computations.
An article explaining how Windows carries a persistent identifier (GDID) that tracks users even behind a VPN, and how to disable the services that send it out.
A curated list of open source self-hosted tools for VPN, music streaming, photo hosting, and more, shared via a GitHub repository.
TailMux allows users to connect to multiple Tailscale tailnets simultaneously without switching or using a VM.
The user shares how they used Tailscale to configure access control and SSH policy to isolate internal and public servers, preventing lateral spread after a breach. By grouping devices with tags, they restrict public servers from reverse-connecting to personal devices, improving security.