The iOS and Android app stores are filled with security apps masquerading as beneficial aids to user privacy and security. We’ve seen huge examples of “Free VPN apps” like Onavo VPN being used by Facebook to harvest data at a massive scale. Onavo VPN has since been removed from the iOS app store but remains […]
TorGuard has been leading the way when it comes to unblocking online services–and that’s because we have two things. One is our unique ability to sell IP addresses for any use case. These IPs come in many forms–from dedicated IPs, streaming IPs, and residential IPs. In order to distribute IPs for VPN users, it requires […]
Around the world, censorship continues to grow and expand as the capability of technology increases. We’ve seen China develop state of the art deep packet inspection techniques that allow them to isolate Twitter civil rights activists, and we’ve seen other countries like Russia block websites and encrypted messaging apps at a similar scale. But it’s […]
LinkedIn is not a bastion of privacy by any stretch of the imagination. It’s a popular website for business networking, which means that it’s easy to find online users and reveal their real-life location, work history, and other personal information to others on the web. A lot of it is due to the website’s nature, […]
China has long since built up one of the world’s most advanced and strict firewall regimes. The Great Firewall is a huge network construction working through deep packet inspection that blocks access to most major websites available internationally. The Firewall is capable of blocking more than 600,00 websites like Google, Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, and more. […]
A lot of people think that internet censorship, and online surveillance is inevitable—but even so, that these things still might not have a day to day affect on their lives. It’s certainly easier to see this train of thought in countries where privacy laws are not atrocious–but in places like China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt […]
A large majority of the current internet community loves to use messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, and signal. But, why do people love these apps? Well, they are free, and the convivence factor is important too–since most of these apps work on PC and phones. You don’t have to be super privacy literate or good […]
Australia has long since been on the crusade to end encryption, and we’ve covered their stance against it in numerous blog posts in the past. Australia and it’s government officials have even come out as saying that they don’t believe in the laws of encryption, or even in mathematics itself. Turnbull, the Australian prime minister, […]
Data is everywhere in our modern internet addicted world, and companies aren’t afraid to take it in order to increase profits. It’s up to you, the end consumer, to be aware of these companies and how they operate so you can protect your personal data. However, while it’s easy to understand that a company always […]
TorGuard VPN was recently rated the #1 fastest VPN by PCMag–but do you think we were satisfied with those results? No, we believe there are always ways to improve. Thanks to feedback from our customers we have prioritized a major upgrade to our 10Gbps VPN servers. We have just completed deployment of our NEW Seattle, LA, […]
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