Verified Privacy VPN (vp.net)

2025 set a new record for internet shutdowns. Access Now and the #KeepItOn coalition documented at least 313 across 52 countries, beating 2024's 304 and 2023's 289. Not one day of the year passed without a shutdown somewhere in the world. See the full write up at vp.net/blog

Myanmar led with 95, used as a tool of war around airstrikes and satellite-terminal seizures. India logged 65, the most of any democracy. Pakistan hit 20, its worst year on record. Conflict drove about 40 percent of the total, behind 125 shutdowns across 14 countries.

We ranked every country, most to fewest, in a single infographic. Full country-by-country breakdown and every source: s.vp.net/DgFvK

When a network turns hostile, most circumvention tools run on a fixed address a censor can find and block for free. Dissent runs as an ordinary Cloudflare-fronted site instead, so blocking it means blocking infrastructure a censor's own population depends on. It comes included with vp.net, and you can verify the running code yourself at godissent.com.

#privacy #internetshutdowns #censorship #digitalrights #vpn

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Verified Privacy VPN (vp.net)

This Saturday on Hide & Speak, @frankahearn joins us to explain how disappearing actually works in the AI era. Set a reminder, see you live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMORc... He spent years as a skip tracer, the person hired to find people who did not want to be found, working phone records, bank trails, and a single well-placed phone call. Then he switched sides and started hiding people instead.

We get into the payphone trick that launched his career, why starting over with a fresh identity is one of the worst moves you can make, and the idea he calls digital starvation: you cannot erase your footprint anymore, you can only stop feeding the machine. He walks through misinformation, disinformation, and reformation on a real client, and explains why most people get found by their own behavior, not by the technology hunting them.


If you have ever wondered how much of you is already bought and sold by data brokers, this one is built to change how you think about being findable.

Streaming live Saturday June 6 at 4pm ET.
Set a reminder, see you live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMORc...

#DigitalStarvation #Privacy #HideAndSpeak

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Verified Privacy VPN (vp.net)

We just launched Dissent, a censorship-resistant VPN, free with every vp.net subscription.

Most tools for beating censorship hide, get found, and get blocked, then start over. Dissent does the opposite. It runs in plain sight on Cloudflare, the infrastructure behind roughly a fifth of the web. To block Dissent, a government has to block all of that, which takes down banks, hospitals, news sites, and its own services for its own citizens. Almost none will pay that price.

Paying for it cannot be traced to using it, and you can verify the running code yourself.
Read the whitepaper and download Dissent: www.godissent.com/en/


Full breakdown and sources: s.vp.net/tCeNu


#privacy #censorship #VPN #internetfreedom #Dissent

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Verified Privacy VPN (vp.net)

How long can police keep your license plate data? We mapped the statewide retention rule in all 50 states for 2026.
Full state-by-state breakdown and every source: s.vp.net/rfsE9

The spread is wide. New Hampshire purges reads in 3 minutes. New Jersey holds them for 5 years. Only 15 states write a hard deletion deadline into law, which leaves most of the country with no fixed deadline at all.

And even where a deadline exists, there is no way for you to verify the data was actually deleted. A retention law is a promise on paper, the same kind of promise a no-logs VPN asks you to take on faith.

Full state-by-state breakdown and every source: s.vp.net/rfsE9

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#privacy #surveillance #alpr #flocksafety #flockcameras

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Verified Privacy VPN (vp.net)

Fusion Centers, the FBI & White Supremacy: Whistleblower Mike German | Hide & Speak, 5/30 @ 4pm ET: Set your reminder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lob1W...


Mike German, ex-FBI whistleblower, joins us Saturday 5/30 at 4pm ET to break down fusion centers, surveillance, and what he saw undercover.
We will be doing a live Q&A session too - ask your questions in the chat and Mike will answer them before the stream ends!
Set your reminder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lob1W...

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Verified Privacy VPN (vp.net)

Mike German spent 16 years in the FBI, including undercover work inside white supremacist groups, before becoming a whistleblower. His Brennan Center research argues fusion centers over-collect, surveil protesters, and have essentially no record of stopping attacks.
We've got him on for a live conversation and Q&A session this Saturday if anyone wants to bring questions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lob1W...

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Verified Privacy VPN (vp.net)

You picked fusion centers. We covered them with Stephen Perez. And on that episode we named one man our Hero of the Week: Mike German, the former FBI agent who went undercover with white supremacists and then exposed how fusion centers actually operate.


He saw the clip. He followed us. And now he's coming on the stream!


Mike German joins Hide & Speak this Saturday, 5/30, 4pm ET.
Hit the bell so you don't miss it.

youtube.com/live/Lob1WQNAs8g

1 week ago | [YT] | 1

Verified Privacy VPN (vp.net)

Live today at 4pm ET. @shannonmorse joins us for 15 years on the privacy beat, the VPN trust problem revisited, and the AI feature rollout across consumer tech that should be making more noise than it is. Microsoft Recall in a VBS enclave. Apple Intelligence with no opt-out at setup. Meta AI reading DMs by default. We work through which one Snubs actually loses sleep over, and which one is mostly overblown.


Tune in live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbHkL...

#HideAndSpeak #Privacy #Snubs #ShannonMorse

1 week ago | [YT] | 2

Verified Privacy VPN (vp.net)

@TheHatedOne joins us live today at 4pm ET on Hide & Speak for Palantir's surveillance empire. Executive Order 14243, Foundry across half a dozen federal agencies, ImmigrationOS and ELITE, and the Karp and Thiel worldview shipping it all.


Stream goes live at 4pm ET today: youtube.com/live/u2iZuSsnJYk


#Palantir #HideAndSpeak #TheHatedOne #AlexKarp #PeterTheil

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 4

Verified Privacy VPN (vp.net)

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​Most "private email" providers stop at encrypting messages at rest. That's useful ,but it leaves a gap: the brief moment where an email lands on the provider's server and the decrypt it then encrypt it with the receivers key. That moment is known as the "plaintext gap", because your "private end-to-end encrypted email" is available in plaintext, where it can be searched, analyzed, logged and subpoenaed. Every other encrypted email provider has this plaintext gap (despite their bold marketing claims).
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That plaintext gap is where almost every public email failure has happened.
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🌐 ProtonMail logging an activist's IP.
🗝️ Lavabit's master keys.
🕵️ Tutanota being ordered to read incoming mail before delivery.
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The encryption wasn't the weak link. The infrastructure around it was.
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bmail.ag closes that gap by running inbound SMTP inside an Intel SGX enclave, so:
🔒 The TLS connection from the sending server terminates inside the enclave, not in front of it
🔒 The decrypted message exists only in hardware-isolated memory that operators can't read
🔒 The running code has a cryptographic measurement that anyone can verify against the published source
🔒 If we got compelled to add logging, the measurement would change, and that change is publicly observable.


If "private" means "we encrypt your emails most of the time, then "private" isn't good enough.

You need "private AF."
You need bmail.
Get started free at bmail.ag/

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