Here at TorGuard we’ve noticed a huge uptick in clients using VPNs for unblocking specific websites and streaming platforms. Governments, ISPs, and now corporations seem to be banding together to decide how we should use the internet. This means that geo-restrictions, IP restrictions, VPN bans, and other forms of...
While countries like Iran, Egypt, and Russia have seen some serious censorship problems with riots and heavy political unrest in the last year, nothing can compare to China. China has the strongest censorship regime in the world, blocking millions of active internet users from accessing popular websites like Facebook, Wikipedia,...
Recently, two new security vulnerabilities, dubbed “Meltdown” and “Spectre” were revealed to the public. These vulnerabilities were found by researchers last June of 2017. The vulnerabilities were discovered by researches like Jann Horn, of Google’s Project Zero–as explained in his blog post. Since the discovery of the two...
After years of manual censorship to combat illegal and explicit content, Indonesia has finally managed to scrape together a multi-million super-AI to take control of the internet to make it “safe”. The new Indonesian internet machine reportedly cost $14 million to develop, and it uses machine learning and an AI...
In intense political situations around the world, it’s becoming more and more common to block access to the internet to prevent government opposition. We see it daily in China, where a large majority of websites are blocked as well as services to prevent citizens from not only voicing their...
Net Neutrality is now a thing of the past, at least for now. This “Obama-era” regulation that protected the rights of internet consumers in the US has been repealed by the Federal Communications Commission. It’s taking away a law that protected rights of consumers in the United States and...
