Verified Privacy VPN (vp.net)

Happy Independence Day from vp.net 🎆

1776: the founders encrypted their correspondence with cipher wheels and invisible ink. They knew private communication was the precondition for free people.

2026: you get hardware-enforced privacy through Intel SGX enclaves that make surveillance technically impossible, not just promised away in a policy.

250 years later, the principle hasn't changed. The tools have.

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1 week ago | [YT] | 1

Verified Privacy VPN (vp.net)

Today on Hide & Speak we sit down with Daniel J. Bernstein, known as djb, on the fight over the future of encryption. The heart of it: he wants a traditional layer kept alongside the new post-quantum crypto, a seatbelt for when the new math breaks. It already broke once, when an algorithm called SIKE shipped to millions of connections and then collapsed. He says the NSA is pushing the weaker option and the standards body is quietly silencing the people who object.

Stream starts at 10am ET. Live today: youtube.com/live/qPhoJQtvgUo

#DanielJBernstein #IETF

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 3

Verified Privacy VPN (vp.net)

This Saturday we sit down with Daniel J. Bernstein, the legendary cryptographer known as djb, for a long conversation about who gets to decide how your encryption works. He built Curve25519, Ed25519, and ChaCha20, the algorithms running quietly inside the tools you use every day. Now he is fighting the people writing the next set of standards.

The fight comes down to one word: hybrid. djb wants a traditional encryption layer kept alongside the new post-quantum algorithms, a seatbelt in case the new math breaks. It has broken before. An algorithm called SIKE shipped to millions of connections and then collapsed. He says the NSA is pushing the weaker, no-seatbelt option through federal purchasing power, and that the standards body is bending its own rules to silence the people who object.

This one decision shapes what protects your web traffic, your email, and your VPN for the next decade. Once it ships, it can take years to undo.

Set a reminder, see you live Saturday June 27 at 10am ET: youtube.com/live/qPhoJQtvgUo

#DanielJBernstein #PostQuantum #IETF

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 1

Verified Privacy VPN (vp.net)

This Saturday on Hide & Speak: the people mapping Flock Safety's cameras one corner at a time, and the movement trying to get them pulled. Set a reminder, see you live Saturday June 20 at 4pm ET: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKgQT...

We've pulled together a roundtable from the DeFlock and anti-ALPR world, including DeFlock's Tyler and Indivisible Highland Park, plus local activists fighting Flock in their own towns. Automated license plate readers have spread across American towns fast, and so has the pushback, as residents learn their plate data can be searched far beyond their local police, sometimes for immigration enforcement. We get into how a crowdsourced map grew into a nationwide coalition, why Flock branded its own critics a "terroristic organization," and the concrete first steps for fighting a camera in your own community.

This is the rare fight that pulls the far left and far right onto the same side. Whether you've never thought twice about the camera on your corner or you're already at city hall arguing about a contract, this one's built to show you what's actually happening.

Set a reminder, see you live Saturday June 20 at 4pm ET: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKgQT...

#DeFlock #FlockSafety #ALPR

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 1

Verified Privacy VPN (vp.net)

This Saturday, June 13 at 4pm ET, Veronica Harper of the Utah Freedom Coalition joins Hide & Speak to walk through how Utah became the national test bed for the connected surveillance state. Set a reminder, see you live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jNnv...

Utah applied to the federal government back in 2017 to become the first true Smart State in the nation, and nobody voted on it. Since then: SB 275 passed unanimously in March 2026 and took effect May 6, putting a state-endorsed digital ID on Utahns' phones, with the ACLU calling it the strongest digital ID privacy framework in the country. Flock cameras are live in Provo, Ogden, and Cedar City. Tens of millions in federal grants are flowing into V2X smart road infrastructure, and the 2034 Olympics are about to accelerate all of it. Veronica has spent years inside the state's own paperwork: federal applications, procurement documents, presentations, and contracts. She'll show us what's in the documents that never makes the brochure.

If you want to understand how this stuff actually gets built, it's in procurement files, not press releases. This is the episode that reads them for you.

Set a reminder, see you live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jNnv...

#DigitalID #FlockCameras #HideAndSpeak

1 month ago | [YT] | 4

Verified Privacy VPN (vp.net)

Hide & Speak streams today at 4pm ET. Join us live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMORc...
@frankahearn, a former skip tracer turned privacy consultant, joins us on the art of disappearing in the AI era. We get into why a fresh identity is one of the worst moves you can make, what digital starvation means, and why people get found by their own behavior, not the tech. Join us live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMORc...


#Privacy #HideAndSpeak #skiptracing

1 month ago | [YT] | 3

Verified Privacy VPN (vp.net)

Ex-Skip Tracer, Expert on Disappearing and Blackmail, New York Times Bestselling Author: Frank M. Ahearn Joins Hide & Speak Saturday, 6/6 @ 4pm ET

Tap the bell, set the reminder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMORc...


This week we sit down with Frank M. Ahearn, a former skip tracer turned privacy consultant. His old job was tracking down people who did not want to be found, using phone records, bank trails, and a lot of social engineering. Then he switched sides and started helping people disappear instead, operating as a privacy consultant and blackmail expert.
He has written several books on how to disappear, landing himself on the New York Times Bestselling Authors list and has a lot of unique perspectives on what it takes to disappear in the AI era.
Frank is joining Hide & Speak on Saturday, 6/6 @ 4pm ET to discuss digital starvation, why starting a new identity is a bad idea and what a normal person can do to become harder to find in the age of facial recognition and AI.
Tap the bell, set the reminder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMORc...

1 month ago | [YT] | 3

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

1 month ago | [YT] | 1

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

1 month ago | [YT] | 3

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

1 month ago | [YT] | 2