Safing Portmaster - Easy Privacy
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Portmaster is a free and open-source application that puts you back in charge over all your computer's network connections. Increase your privacy and security. Get peace of mind.

An alternative to a VPNs - afair it routes your traffic through a Tor-style network, it’s FOSS software made in Austria

  • Telorand@reddthat.com
    6·
    5 hours ago

    You might want to ask/crosspost on !privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com or similar communities. They have a vested interest in this stuff.

    I do not have personal experience with their paid plan, but I have used Portmaster. Seems comparable to a traditional VPN, and there’s a few things to note about Safing, Portmaster, and the SPN:

    • Safing donates money to privacyguides.org. Excellent start.
    • Supposedly the SPN (Safing Privacy Network) works similarly to Tor, and like Tor, each node doesn’t know the originating IP and the destination simultaneously. Access is assigned with a blind, randomly generated token after Portmaster validates that you are allowed to access the SPN
    • It’s being acquired by IVPN. I don’t know much about them, but they have supposedly contributed a lot of good code to Portmaster, and they are recommended by Privacy Guides.
    • SPN was audited by Cure53 in 2020.
    • No mobile client (yet).