ISPs can't even spy on your TLS traffic without breaking your internet. Obscura VPN users unaffected.

Free civilizations cannot exist without privacy.

Every Cloudflare outage makes me wonder: Can we develop an open-source, local Cloudflare? Modern tooling/packet bypasses like XDP and BPF surely lower the barrier-to-entry to meaningful DDoS protection significantly.

😲 Ubiquiti just made a Flipper Zero for SFP modules!

You can tell I had a lot of fun chatting with @ente.io's CEO Vishnu 😊 Fighters for digital privacy, unite!

User data is toxic waste. Companies that don't treat it as such are ngmi.

🎉 BIG NEWS: Obscura is now on iOS! Obscura engineering team remains undefeated, even against the goliath that is App Store Review and In-App Purchases. We'll do a blog post about this someday, so folks can learn from our battle scars!

Anyone know of folks that have worked with the Android `VpnService` API?

> Apple: Confirming that you've fixed X, only Y needs fixes > Us: We've now fixed Y > Apple: Please fix X > Us: You literally just confirmed that we already fixed X > Apple: Please fix X (no details added) > Us: Here's proof we fixed X > Apple: Please fix X (no details added)

British lawmakers are buying their VPN subs with taxpayer money… and telling the same taxpayers not to use VPNs. You cannot make this shit up.

I am a systemd lover and I WILL NOT APOLOGIZE

“We must defend our own privacy if we expect to have any. We must come together and create systems which allow anonymous transactions to take place.” – A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto An open and private internet is more important than ever. That's what we fight for at @obscura.net

A Remote Access Trojan Malware was found in packages for Librewolf, Firefox, and Zen Browser last week 😰 If you were an Arch Linux users who tried to install these browsers via patched packages in the AUR, please check your system!

NEW in v1.128: Location Switching in the Menu Bar A lot of you have asked for this, and it's finally here! Switch between your pinned locations and Quick Connect right from your menu bar! (See video below) Felix the friendly bot will miss you, but he understands ☺️

Hey folks! Our 25% off launch sale will be ending next Monday (July 21st). If you haven't taken advantage of the sale yet, this is your sign to do so 😄 If you subscribe, we'll honor this sale price indefinitely 🔁 We've also recently added WireGuard support and iOS Testflight!

In Rust terms: When you thought your VPN provider's elided lifetime resolves to 'static but it's really just 'whenwedie 😆 tech.slashdot.org/story/25/07...

James Dyson just made hair being stuck in Vacuums a thing of the past. Nobody is as obsessed with building the best Vacuum as James Dyson. Nobody is as obsessed with building the best VPN as our team at Obscura. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve6...

I knew there was something familiar about the American Megatrends BIOS logo... Skynet had ring-0 access the whole time!

My origin story 🐉

So Gemini on Android is about to forcefully get access to your WhatsApp + Messages, regardless if you've previously turned it off? And they want to dress it up like they're helping you? Please tell me I'm misunderstanding something here...

In the digital age, our de-facto privacy rights in the physical world are being stripped away. Even worse - surveillance mechanisms are being set up. As people wake up to this, privacy-by-default will become table-stakes for digital products. techcrunch.com/2025/03/02/...

Today's background music: A dramatic reading of RFC 2119 on loop 😆 soundcloud.com/ericwbailey...

If you can't see your VPN App's source code, you can almost safely assume it's compromised. www.theregister.com/2025/06/24/...

Me: Oh! Tim Sweeney won and we can link to our own payments on iOS! Apple: You plebeian. Your app won't pass App Store review without also offering Apple in-app purchases. And there's a whole different set of rules for EU. 😒 We would have already launched iOS otherwise.

A cheery bit of Tom Lehrer for our Sunday evenings 🎶 www.youtube.com/watch?v=frA...

This Meta AI search thing seems pretty bad (and perhaps sad)... "'What counties [sic] do younger women like older white men,' a public message from a user on Meta’s AI platform says..." "...all tied to user names and profile photos." 😨 www.wired.com/story/meta-...

Too many services have meaningless E2E encryption: THIS APP IS E2E ENCRYPTED!!!* *one end is you the user and the other end is our data harvesting pipeline

Sec, gotta ask my ancestors for the WiFi router password real quick

It's a series of tubes!

Is anyone on Xfinity/Comcast or Spectrum/Charter internet with a stock router/modem and knows how to run `cargo` commands? Please DM me immediately, would like to test out a mitigation for ISP blocking. Happy to offer 2 years of free @obscura.net‬!

...then they fight you...

Firewalls Don’t Stop Dragons, won’t stop @obscura.net either! Had a great time chatting with Carey on the pod 🔥

Waymos in SF record video but not audio. Which is interesting for privacy… But doesn’t this mean that this camera (see pic) is recording my phone screen at all times??

These shoes were a gift from one of @obscura.net's earliest believers. I wear them almost daily – a constant reminder to stand up for our fans and users.

Apple's `includeAllNetworks` API is a great idea, but not without its flaws. We'll get to the bottom of this.

Saw a MythBusters clip the other day and felt such a wave of nostalgia 🥹 Whatever happened to the Discovery channel? Are there still shows like MythBusters and How It's Made?

So is `iptables` pronounced "eye-pee-tables" or "ip-tables" (as in "hip")?

POV: You're an ISP looking at SNI hostnames

Recently started writing to organize my thoughts. I proudly present: A post (with animations!) on "Why your TCP-based VPN stutters (and how to fix it)" incl. a shoutout to BIP324: https://blog.carldong.me/tot Hope y'all enjoy! 😁 (and subscribe for more of my technical ramblings)