Security and Firewalls

Hotspot Shield is built around a proprietary VPN protocol called Catapult Hydra, which is the central reason to choose this software over alternatives. Where most […]

Freegate is an anti-censorship tool, not a general-purpose VPN. The distinction matters because the use cases are different. Where commercial VPNs target users wanting privacy, […]

Ultrasurf is the small free proxy that’s been helping users in censored regions reach blocked websites since 2002. The application opens an encrypted tunnel from […]

Internet access isn’t equal across the world. In some countries, the internet most users experience is the open, more-or-less-uncensored network that hosts the websites and […]

ProtonVPN is the VPN service from Proton AG, the Swiss company started in 2014 by scientists from CERN and MIT who originally built ProtonMail to […]

simplewall is the lightweight Windows firewall that sits on top of the operating system’s own Windows Filtering Platform and turns it into something genuinely usable. […]

VPN PRO is a no-frills Windows VPN client built around one big idea, which is making the connect-to-a-server step as simple as it can possibly […]

Ordinary tunnel services solve a privacy problem. Lantern solves a different one, which is reaching material that somebody has deliberately blocked, in places where the […]

Tuxler is a VPN application that works on a fundamentally different architecture than every mainstream VPN. Instead of routing your traffic through dedicated servers in […]

Installing a tunnelling service normally begins with an account. An email address, a password, a confirmation link, and a subscription decision before anything connects. OkayFreedom […]

Most subscription services in this category let you connect five or six devices and then start refusing. IPVanish does not count. Connections are unlimited, which […]

Most VPN clients ask you to fill in a server address, a protocol, a set of credentials and a handful of options you half understand. […]

FreeNet is a peer-to-peer environment that helps you share, download, and browse content and files with other users in a secure way. It has a […]

Every VPN promises the same three things, a hidden IP, an encrypted tunnel, and speed that doesn’t make you regret the first two. NordVPN is […]

VPN Unlimited routes your internet traffic through an encrypted tunnel to a remote server, so the sites you visit see the server’s address instead of […]