Every few months, the internet discovers a new opinion about VPNs. One week they are essential tools that everyone should use. The next week they are supposedly useless snake oil. Then someone on Reddit claims that HTTPS made VPNs obsolete. Someone else insists that a VPN makes you completely anonymous. Before long, nobody knows what to believe anymore. Image created by me using Create Studio 4. As someone who spends far too much time thinking about privacy, cybersecurity, an

There are quiet days in cybersecurity, and then there are days when a single corporate decision manages to undermine an entire trust model. This is the latter. I created this picture using Create Studio 4 . Without warning, Microsoft suspended developer access for some of the most critical open source security tools in existence, including WireGuard and VeraCrypt. No prior notice, no meaningful explanation, and most importantly no immediate way for developers to fix the situa

There is a fundamental misconception about privacy. Read this to understand privacy and learn how to protect it.