During my career in disaster prevention/recovery I’ve spent years dealing with real-world threat models, both at the corporate and personal levels. And, based upon my extensive professional experience I cannot emphasize strongly enough that: I treat any VPN with meaningful Israeli ownership, founding, or operational ties as an elevated risk by default. This is not…
The last few weeks have delivered a clearer signal than usual. There’s no longer any doubt that what seem like “isolated policy moves” are forming a consistent pattern: the zone of private life is being narrowed, one legal ruling, technical feature, and “safety” measure at a time. I write this as someone who has spent…
This Is A Direct Threat to Encryption Worldwide, Including for Americans On July 11, 2026, the European Parliament advanced the “Chat Control” regulation using an “urgent procedure” pretext while many Members of the European Parliament were already away on summer recess. The proposal, which requires messaging platforms to scan private communications for Child Sexual Abuse…
I’ve defended online privacy and free speech against growing threats for decades now. And during this time I’ve seen how small policy changes can gradually erode the personal liberties we all take for granted in our daily lives. Today I’m writing as someone who transitioned from big tech to carry out independent work protecting individuals,…
Although it’s basically been overlooked in the news cycle, the leak of Peter Thiel’s exclusive Dialog Network is not just another piece of tech gossip flowing through our social streams; instead it reveals how secretive gatherings like Bilderberg quietly steer global policy, technology, and economies, often at the expense of everyday citizens’ autonomy and privacy.…
By the shade of George Orwell Looking back at writing 1984, I now realize I was just a starry-eyed optimist back in those days. Indeed, in 1948 I could not have possibly foreseen any of the ways in which Big Brother is now controlling us, our thoughs, our opinions, and our behavior. I predicted that…
As the descendant of Soviet dissidents I have spent almost three decades analyzing governance trends slowly getting out of hand on both sides of the Atlantic. But between the creeping technocracy and population oppression of the European Union since the 1990s and Canada in more recent years to the rapid takeover of Washington by corporate…
Imagine this: You’re snapping a family photo on your iPhone, making a quick note on your Windows laptop, or sending a meme via X. Innocent, right? But silently, in the background, your own device is spying on you… scanning every pixel, every word, every file, for “suspicious” content. And if it doesn’t like what it…
The internet is our open square, a place where anyone – from a blogger in Novosibirsk to a student in Nairobi – can freely speak their mind. But in Europe, new laws and corporate moves set for 2025 are building walls around this freedom, and they could affect you, no matter where you are. As…
