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Hello! We reluctantly have to announce gloomy news to you all: Spooky Halloween Deals are now available in AirVPN... Save up to 74% on AirVPN longer plans (*) (*) When compared to 1 month plan price Deal will expire on 2026-11-03 UTC Check all plans and discounts here: https://airvpn.org/plans If you're already our customer and you wish to jump aboard for a longer period with this un-boo-lievable deal, any additional plan will be added on top of already existing subscriptions and you will not lose any day. Every plan gives you all the features that made AirVPN a nightmare for snoopers and a scary service for competitors. Just check this frighteningly long list of terrific features if you dare: a clear mission without compromises https://airvpn.org/mission exclusive and comfortable remote inbound port forwarding system flexible, opt-in block lists against malware and other hostile entities. Pick predefined lists, add exceptions or additional blocks, define your own lists, or just use our totally neutral DNS by default improved API functions to let you control and configure VPN features and account settings WireGuard integration AmneziaWG support in Eddie Android edition, with traffic mimicry of real websites (QUIC) to defeat DPI-based VPN blocking. This year our traffic wears a costume too: with AmneziaWG on Eddie Android, your connection goes trick-or-treating dressed up as an ordinary website, and DPI won't recognise who's behind the mask. Security-hardened Eddie Desktop edition Strong infrastructure growth: about 25% more total capacity in one year. Our servers grew by a ghastly 25% this year: more bandwidth to haunt the Internet at full speed. IPv6 support, including IPv6 over IPv4 and IPv4 over IPv6 refined load balancing to squeeze every last bit per second from VPN servers free and open source software for Android, Linux, Mac and Windows offering advanced features easy "Configuration Generator" web interface for access through third party software guaranteed minimum bandwidth allocation GDPR compliance and very high privacy protection standards no log and/or inspection of clients' traffic effective traffic leaks prevention by AirVPN software Tor support via AirVPN software on Linux, Mac and Windows various cryptocurrencies accepted without any intermediary no obligation to use our free and open source software to enter AirVPN infrastructure. Interoperability is an AirVPN priority. perfectly clear and easy to read Privacy Notice and Terms https://airvpn.org/privacy No tricks, only treats! We witch you a spooktacular Halloween AirVPN Staff

Update: restrictions lifted Hello! The PHP project released the fixed versions earlier than scheduled, and we have installed them on every system of our infrastructure. The temporary restrictions described above have now been removed: The forum is writable again: you can post new topics and replies, edit posts, upload attachments,date your profile. The support ticket area works normally: you can open new tickets and reply to existing ones from the website. Password recovery works again. The customer API (https://airvpn.org/api/) accepts multipart/form-data requests again. If you wrote to support@airvpn.org in the meantime, there is no need to open a ticket as well: we will answer you there. If any of the functions above still fails for you, please clear your browser cache and try again; if the problem persists, open a ticket or write to support@airvpn.org. VPN connections, Eddie and the AirVPN Suite were not affected at any time. Thank you for your patience and understanding. AirVPN Staff

Hello! We're very glad to inform you that a new 10 Gbit/s full duplex server located in New York City, USA, is available: Hiisi. The AirVPN client will show automatically the new server; if you use any other OpenVPN or WireGuard client you can generate all the files to access it through our configuration/certificates/key generator (menu "Client Area"->"Config generator"). The server accepts connections on ports 53, 80, 443, 1194, 2018 UDP and TCP for OpenVPN and ports 1637, 47107 and 51820 UDP for WireGuard. Hiisi supports OpenVPN over SSL and OpenVPN over SSH, TLS 1.3, OpenVPN tls-crypt and WireGuard. Full IPv6 support is included as well. As usual no traffic limits, no logs, no discrimination on protocols and hardened security against various attacks with separate entry and exit-IP addresses. You can check the status as usual in our real time servers monitor , by clicking the server name. Direct link: https://airvpn.org/servers/Hiisi Do not hesitate to contact us for any information or issue. Kind regards & datalove AirVPN Staff Photo by John Dillenbeck (Public Domain)

Been a happy member for about 5 years! Thank you for reliable and private service! You guys are a godsend!!! 😁

Just switched from Proton, thank you!

Halloween renewal - Grazie, Eduardo, from New World.

@after_lunch Hello! Thank you for the complete report, it shows what is happening. Your Wi-Fi adapter gets its DNS servers from your router: 194.168.4.100 and 194.168.8.100, which are your ISP's resolvers. Eddie 2.26.2 sets the AirVPN DNS (10.128.0.1) only on its own adapter, and in some circumstances its DNS leak protection fails to block queries sent to the resolvers of the other adapters. This is a known bug of 2.26.2, and your report matches it: Network Lock is active and the log says "DNS leak protection with packet filtering enabled", yet Windows still reaches your ISP's resolvers. You can solve it in one of two ways: 1. Stay on 2.26.2 and apply a workaround: open Eddie's Preferences > DNS, enable "Force all network interfaces for DNS", save, then disconnect and reconnect. OR 2. Upgrade to Eddie 2.27.2 beta, which contains the fix: https://airvpn.org/forums/topic/81340-eddie-desktop-edition-227-beta-released/ Then repeat the test on ipleak.net while connected: only AirVPN DNS servers should be listed. If your ISP's resolvers still appear after the workaround, please switch to 2.27.2, and if they persist there too, post a new system report. About hiding long text: the forum does not convert spoiler tags typed by hand. Use the Spoiler button in the editor toolbar and paste the text inside the box that appears, or simply attach the report as a .txt file. Kind regards

Thank AirVPN team for cheap, stable VPN, another 3 years from me 😉

That would be great. Even a 10 year plan 😂 You could do that even now. Just stack up the subscription. I agree. Thank you devs!

Hi AirVPN team, First of all, congratulations on the excellent service and on remaining a truly independent VPN, still faithful to its original values. That is becoming increasingly rare and deserves to be appreciated. The current three-year offer is great! But since some of us are planning to stay aboard for a very long time, how about a five-year package with an extra-special discount for your most loyal customers? Then I could pay now and not think about renewing again until after 2030! :-) Just asking on behalf of the AirVPN faithful… you never know! Thanks again for the excellent service. Keep up the great work! Kind regards & datalove

New here, just got my subscription. Thank you!

Hello! A quick follow-up on the WireGuard session counter issue mentioned above. The cause has been identified and fixed, and the fix is currently being rolled out across our infrastructure. Servers that have already received the update are back to reporting accurate figures, and the remaining ones will follow shortly, so the connection counts shown in the server monitor and in the related statistics will match reality again in the very near future. As previously stated, actual connections and the service itself have never been affected, only the displayed counter was. Kind regards

Thank you all for the valuable feedback. Following this thread, we have identified a bug, most likely introduced on October 7th-8th, which causes the WireGuard session counter on some servers to grow incorrectly over time. As a result, the number of connections currently shown in the server monitor is higher than the real one. The actual connections, and the service itself, are not affected. We are working on a fix and will update this thread as soon as it is in place. On a side note, this also means that our no-overselling commitment is honoured by an even wider margin than the one computed by @fsy Kind regards

Hi, wow, thank you very much for the incredibly fast and detailed response! CASE CLOSED. That clears things up completely. I will use 10.128.0.1 as the DNS server and DNAT target for my WireGuard setup from now on. Also, thank you for acknowledging that the current Specs page is somewhat misleading regarding 10.4.0.1 and WireGuard. Looking forward to the updated documentation. I also appreciate the additional explanation regarding DNS leak prevention and making sure DNS traffic cannot fall back to WAN. My OPNsense rules are already designed around that principle. Overall very happy with the support and I'll happily renew for another three years when the Cyber Deal becomes available again. 🙂 Cheers!

Hello! We're very glad to inform you that a new 10 Gbit/s full duplex server located in Stockholm, Sweden, is available: Formosa. The AirVPN client will show automatically the new server; if you use any other OpenVPN or WireGuard client you can generate all the files to access it through our configuration/certificates/key generator (menu "Client Area"->"Config generator"). The server accepts connections on ports 53, 80, 443, 1194, 2018 UDP and TCP for OpenVPN and ports 1637, 47107 and 51820 UDP for WireGuard. Formosa supports OpenVPN over SSL and OpenVPN over SSH, TLS 1.3, OpenVPN tls-crypt and WireGuard. Full IPv6 support is included as well. As usual no traffic limits, no logs, no discrimination on protocols and hardened security against various attacks with separate entry and exit-IP addresses. You can check the status as usual in our real time servers monitor , by clicking the server name. Direct link: https://airvpn.org/servers/Formosa Do not hesitate to contact us for any information or issue. Kind regards & datalove AirVPN Staff

I have been facing a predicament for months, which is that Steam thinks i'm a bot and doesn't let me play any multiplayer games in.. multiplayer, and I can't turn my VPN off to use all 5 ports on it to host numerous servers. The problem is, there isn't a way to IP or domain whitelist Steam, since I don't know any of the ip's it uses to connect, and they change alot. This is where app-based tunneling would shine though, and here is why 1. App based tunelling would most likely save you guys alot of bandwidth, now people can tell the VPN to send web browser connections through their actual internet, and then you won't have alot of traffic taken up by YouTube streams 2. This defeats the need to switch to other clients, which is clunky and complicated. 3. It lets you do everything in one app (Eddie), which is extremely convenient and simple for newcomers to use, probably bringing more subscribers to the VPN too since split-tunneling is a useful feature 4. It straight up lets you split tunnel some stuff in the first place, such as Steam i've already mentioned, which uses a variety of ip's and domains i don't know, and i'm not about to spend a few hours in wireshark getting all the ip's/domains and adding them. So please, 4 good reasons on why app split-tunneling should be added to Eddie. P.S. another thing I noticed was that the split-tunneling already in Eddie didn't seem to work until I reconnected the VPN, is this a limitation, a bug, or just something that isn't added? - Thanks, a pleading CS2 player and server hoster

Would it be possible to have added the ability to use 3rd party DNS services which support DNS over TLS or DNS over HTTPS? I'd love the option to paste in the NextDNS DNS-over-HTTPS link ( https://dns.nextdns.io/xxxxx) and funnel all DNS requests for a certain devices through it. There's a lot of added functionality/logging available through such a service and it would be a good addition I think.

Hey there, i've been recently to hamburg and talked to some guys who are working on a project called "Freifunk" [1] [2] in hamburg. They have around 400 Nodes, serving around 600 Clients at the moment, running and providing censorship free internet without any kind of limitation. The free access to the internet is not the main goal, but a feature. The "main goals of freifunk are to build a network that is decentralized, owned by those who run it and to support local communications". They are always looking for reliable vpn server to keep the community project running and the risk of being sued low. The community is running under the "Pico Peering Agreement v1.0" [3]. Maybe it´s something you want to support. [4] [1] freifunk.hamburg.net [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freifunk [3] http://www.ohrensessel.net/ffhh/total [3] http://www.picopeer.net/PPA-en.html [4] https://hamburg.freifunk.net/kontakt

Eddie silently ignores all changes to the base directives if in Append mode, and uses Base + Custom in Custom mode, so remove nobind from there and add your custom directives on the left, then set it to Custom mode. Little tip: To check the OpenVPN config Eddie would use to connect to a server, in the Servers/Countries tab right click on an entry and select More.

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Some or all of the AirVPN crew must be into Astronomy, I noticed all the star/constellation names they've given to the various servers. No problem, when I'm not here as a keyboard jockey I'm outside on clear nights with my C-14.

Hello! AirVPN is not affected. All our websites and web services (airvpn.org and our other domains) use Let's Encrypt certificates, which chain to ISRG Root X1. No eMudhra root or intermediate certificate is part of any of our certificate chains. The VPN connections do not depend on public certificate authorities at all: OpenVPN: your client authenticates our servers only against AirVPN's own private CA, which is included in your configuration file. A certificate issued by any public CA, eMudhra included, is rejected. WireGuard: there are no certificates. The server is authenticated by its public key, which is also in your configuration file. Eddie: it communicates with our infrastructure through a channel encrypted and authenticated with an RSA key built into Eddie itself, so it does not rely on the certificate store of your system. Since the tunnel is authenticated this way, someone on your local network or at your ISP cannot use a forged public certificate to get between you and our VPN servers. The remaining risk is the general one that applies to every website: a person who holds one of the compromised intermediate keys could forge a certificate for any domain, and a browser or operating system that has not received the block could accept it. Mozilla, Google, Apple and Microsoft have already revoked and blocked the affected certificates, thus upgrade asap. Kind regards

I had to reinstall Eddie client for several times and setting it up is always a quest for the whole evening. Had lost my evenings with 2.26.2 - 2.27.1 version update and ovpn-dco failure on win 10, thx experimental version managed to be here again. So many users have ISP blocks and it's always a great problem to recieve server list, for me I had to search for some free VPN, download, connect and retrieve airvpn server list, though Eddie app loggs in without any problems even with isp blocks. Imagine how you can simplify life of common users if app would have some servers in memory or kind of random test servers to connect to get info.

@Nitrox Hello! Thank you for the report, it shows the cause. Your system has two Eddie tunnel adapters, "Eddie" and "Eddie 1". "Eddie 1" was left behind by an earlier session that did not close properly (the log starts with "Recovery. Unexpected crash?"): even after Eddie has disconnected, it is still up with a VPN address and it still holds the VPN routes 0.0.0.0/1 and 128.0.0.0/1. When Eddie connects, the new tunnel itself works (the WireGuard handshake succeeds), but Windows answers that the VPN routes "already exist", so your traffic goes to the stale adapter instead of the new tunnel. The route check then times out, Eddie disconnects and tries the next server, which is the loop you see. After Eddie gives up, those leftover routes still capture all your traffic, which is why the internet stays blocked until you restart: the restart removes the stale adapter. To fix it: 1. Close Eddie completely. 2. Restart Windows using Start > Power > Restart, not Shut down followed by powering on. With Windows Fast Startup enabled (the default), a shutdown does not fully reset the system, while Restart always does. 3. If the problem comes back, close Eddie, open Device Manager, select View > Show hidden devices, expand "Network adapters" and uninstall every "Eddie Tunnel" entry (for example "Eddie Tunnel" and "Eddie Tunnel #2"). Then restart Windows (Restart, as above) and start Eddie, which will create a new adapter when it connects. If the problem persists after these steps, please attach a new system report generated right after a failed connection attempt, before closing Eddie or restarting Windows. Kind regards

@gtrman Hello! Thank you, the backup file shows the remaining cause. The backup was saved before step 2, so it still shows the old ALL APPLICATION PACKAGES entry (AC) with FA; that is expected. The second entry that blocks Eddie is this one: (A;OICIIO;FA;;;CO) It is the CREATOR OWNER entry, which the normal icacls output shows as CREATOR OWNER:(OI)(CI)(IO)(F). On a default installation it is stored as (A;OICIIO;GA;;;CO). GA (generic all) and FA (explicit full access) grant the same permissions in practice, but Eddie's check reads the stored value as it is: it accepts GA and rejects FA. Because icacls displays both as (F), the difference was not visible in the first output. This entry does not give anyone access to System32 itself, only to files created there later, and only for their owner. Eddie's check does not make this distinction yet, and we will report it to the developers. Please open a Command Prompt as administrator again and run the following commands. 1. Save a backup of the current permissions: icacls "%SystemRoot%\System32" /save "%USERPROFILE%\system32-acl-backup2.txt" 2. Store the CREATOR OWNER entry in its default form: icacls "%SystemRoot%\System32" /grant:r "*S-1-3-0:(OI)(CI)(IO)(GA)" S-1-3-0 is the fixed identifier of CREATOR OWNER, so the command works with any Windows language. As before, it may take a minute; wait until it reports "Successfully processed 1 files". 3. Save the new permissions to a second file, to check them:Open icacls "%SystemRoot%\System32" /save "%USERPROFILE%\system32-acl-check.txt" system32-acl-check.txt with your favorite text editor. It should contain (A;OICIIO;GA;;;CO) and (A;OICI;0x1200a9;;;AC), and no entry ending with FA;;;CO or FA;;;AC. Then start Eddie. If it still shows the same error, please post the content of system32-acl-check.txt here. To undo only today's change, you can run: icacls "%SystemRoot%" /restore "%USERPROFILE%\system32-acl-backup2.txt" Kind regards

@gtrman Hello! Thank you, the output confirms the cause. This is the entry that blocks Eddie: APPLICATION PACKAGE AUTHORITY\ALL APPLICATION PACKAGES:(OI)(CI)(F) It gives Full control of System32 to every Store (UWP) app on the system. On a default installation this group can only read and execute files in System32. The other entries do not need to be changed for Eddie. Please open a Command Prompt as administrator (right-click Command Prompt, then "Run as administrator") and run the following commands. 1. Save a backup of the current permissions of the folder: icacls "%SystemRoot%\System32" /save "%USERPROFILE%\system32-acl-backup.txt" 2. Replace the Full control entry with the default read and execute permission: icacls "%SystemRoot%\System32" /grant:r "*S-1-15-2-1:(OI)(CI)(RX)" S-1-15-2-1 is the fixed identifier of ALL APPLICATION PACKAGES, so the command works with any Windows language. Please do not simply remove the entry: Store apps, including parts of the Start menu and Settings, need read access to System32. Windows also applies the change to the files and subfolders that inherit from System32, so the command may take a minute. Wait until it reports "Successfully processed 1 files". 3. Run icacls "%SystemRoot%\System32" again. The ALL APPLICATION PACKAGES line should now end with (OI)(CI)(RX). Then start Eddie. If Eddie still shows the same error, please open system32-acl-backup.txt in your user folder with Notepad and post its content here. It is a single line that shows the exact permission values, which the normal icacls output does not show. If you ever need to undo the change, this command restores the saved permissions: icacls "%SystemRoot%" /restore "%USERPROFILE%\system32-acl-backup.txt" Eddie does not check wuauclt.exe and wuaueng.dll, so the ownership change on those two files is not related to this error. And when you move to Linux, Eddie is available there as well. Kind regards

Hello! The problem seems completely resolved. Kind regards

@gtrman Hello! Thank you for the detailed list of checks. The error comes from a security check in Eddie, not from netsh.exe itself. Eddie runs netsh.exe and other Windows tools with administrator privileges, so before running them it verifies that neither the executable nor its folder can be modified by an account other than SYSTEM, Administrators or TrustedInstaller. Otherwise a non-administrator could replace the tool and have it run with elevated privileges. The empty text after "not allowed:" in your screenshot indicates that netsh.exe itself passed the check, but its folder, C:\Windows\System32, did not: some other account is allowed to create files in it. This is not the default Windows configuration. It is usually left behind by a "take ownership" or "grant full access" tweak or tool applied to system folders in the past. This also explains why sfc, DISM and reinstalling Eddie, portable or installer, did not help: they do not reset the permissions of the System32 folder. To confirm, please open a Command Prompt and run the following command. It only displays the permissions and does not change anything: icacls "%SystemRoot%\System32" Then post the output here. If you prefer, you can replace your computer name and user name with placeholders, but please leave the rest unchanged. On a default installation only NT SERVICE\TrustedInstaller, NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM and BUILTIN\Administrators can write to that folder. An additional entry with (F), (M), (W) or (WD) for your user account, Users, Authenticated Users or Everyone is the likely cause. Please do not take ownership of System32 or change its permissions recursively in the meantime. Once we see the output, we will tell you how to remove only the extra entry. Kind regards

thanks @pHxaq and @Staff for the info!

I would prefer to see some new locations added outside the 5/9/14 Eyes Alliance (Iceland, Panama..). Especially Iceland would be a good candidate; they have loads of bandwidth and I will assume low datacentre bills thanks to the geothermal power. Also some locations seem to favor more/slower servers instead of less/faster. My assumption would be that this is legacy infrastructure and Air is moving towards the latter, as recently done in the UK..?

So far a day each on the new, improved versions of Xamidimura and Flegetonte, with excellent performance and no problems at all.

Well, not long ago we were at 40k online users, now we are at almost 70k. If I'm not mistaken, this increase in the userbase happened in a matter of a few months. It is expected to see overloaded servers until they can expand the number of them.

@lotuslove165 Still working with the folks at Airvpn. Looks like we are getting close to a solution. I'll be delighted if the rule changes they can make will finally facilitate KVM ---> NAT ----> VPN with lock protection. Will keep you informed.

It's the furthest thing from Arch tech-wise. Arch tracks upstream and is very often up-to-date (only Fedora is a bit ahead), while AirVPN has been on this IP.Board version for almost a decade soon. I'd say, install it from the AUR and check it out yourself – just like Arch compels you to do

Hello! We inform you that all of our VPN servers in Uppsala, Sweden, will cease operations during the night between 30 September and 1 October 2026. This withdrawal is part of our ongoing hardware renewal and connectivity improvement programme. These servers have already been partially replaced by brand-new servers in Northern Europe featuring more powerful hardware and 10 Gbit/s connectivity. Further deployments will complete their replacement. If you currently connect to our Uppsala servers, please select alternative servers before the withdrawal. If you use OpenVPN or WireGuard configuration files pointing specifically to these servers, please generate replacement configurations through our Config Generator in the Client Area. Do not hesitate to contact us for any information or assistance. Kind regards & datalove AirVPN Staff

Dear developers, Although you wrote “support to Linux systems based on systemd and SysV-style init”, I'm sorry to inform you that this stable version 2.26.2 still does not support the Devuan GNU/Linux 5 and 6 operating systems, as I mentioned on July 20, 2026, regarding the “2.26.2 beta" version: https://airvpn.org/forums/topic/80641-eddie-desktop-edition-226-beta-released/?do=findComment&comment=263788 Below is a screenshot showing that privilege escalation via pkexec on Devuan works for synaptic but not for eddie-ui 2.26.2: Due to persistent bugs on sysvinit systems, I’m still stuck with version 2.25.1. If this bug isn’t fixed by Black Friday, for security reasons I’ll unfortunately be forced to consider an annual subscription with one of your competitors, <advertisement removed --- Staff> — something I’d like to avoid. Please do something to fix this privilege escalation bug with pkexec.

Hello, As of today I can no longer access the website nifty.org. It is a gay story website and where I live it is blocked. Is this a decision that AirVpn made to remove access to anything that is gay story oriented? If so I would like to cancel my account because I have been a customer for nearly 10 years and I am dissapointed.

Hello everyone, I built Gluetun Companion, a self-hosted web dashboard for people running VPN through Gluetun in Docker/homelab setups (UNRAiD friendly), with dedicated AirVPN options. Its purpose is to make choosing and maintaining VPN servers less manual. It benchmarks configured servers through the VPN tunnel, keeps a history of throughput, latency, jitter, packet loss and DNS latency, then helps select or rotate to the most suitable server. It also includes: - AirVPN server catalogue and live load information, - WireGuard and OpenVPN profile support, - server exclusions, including country exclusions, - automatic switching and rotation pools, - port-forward inventory and optional qBittorrent / rTorrent port synchronization, - tracker reachability checks through the VPN, - Prometheus metrics, Grafana dashboard, and Discord/Apprise notifications. It is still beta software. I use and test it primarily with AirVPN over WireGuard, so feedbacks would be very welcome. Project and installation instructions: https://github.com/Aerya/Gluetun-Companion UNRAiD template: https://ca.unraid.net/apps/gluetun-companion-0uhgrhz0byhtpv A few screenshots are attached below. Thanks! A.

https://annas-archive.gl/ would appear to qualify under "Circumvent censorship and any other barrier to seek, receive and impart information and ideas without interference and regardless of frontiers" They also sell ad space: https://annas-archive.gl/faq

You should support Pleroma. It peers with Mastodon and the developers and users are much more pro-free-speech. Plus Pleroma's interface is a lot nicer looking than Mastodon's.

The eunomia.social domain linked from post #4 was taken over by Malaysian casino ads (can the link be removed/annotated?). Here is a live link, if only to the project announcement https://www.synyo.com/news/eunomia-project-to-combat-misinformation-with-decentralized-secure-and-trustworthy-social-media/

Hello First, I want to thank the team behind Airvpn. I've been a happy customer for 3 years (and atleast 3 more ) and I truly believe in your mission. As some of you might know, in the recent weeks the access to internet in iran has been severed by firewalls. The countries' regime has been opressing people in every age group through brutal acts, officially over 224 people killed with over 29 minors included. Iranian government is notorious for torturing and murdering their own people and covering it up by blocking the media and/or shutting down electricity.(2 years ago they shut down electricity and burned people who were fleeing to the reeds) currently, big hacking groups both national and international have declared cyberwar against the government of Iran (Such as Anonymous). It would be great if you can provide a service/ training material for the people of Iran in order to bypass this firewall and share with the world what actually is happening in there or organize against the government. I would personally translate these documentations to Persian to enable more people At first, it might seem impossible but since a lot of services such as Google Mail are still unblocked and by setting up emails that reply back to people you can enable them to access the internet freely Of course, the wonderful team of Airvpn might have much better ideas than me to help these people. Best some guy who wants to help their people

What about supporting Signal? It’s a non-profit organization and their software is open source. Obviously it’s not as flexible as XMPP, but it seems to grow more popular: Signal might be the first privacy-oriented app for a lot of people. https://signal.org

I don't see the sense in doing that at all. What is the exact goal you're aiming for with this?

AIRVPN DOES NOT RECOGNIZE ANYMORE VERISIGN, AFILIAS AND ICANN AUTHORITY. OUR COMMITMENT AGAINST UNITED STATES OF AMERICA UNFAIR AND ILLEGAL DOMAIN NAMES SEIZURES. The United States of America authorities have been performing domain names seizures since the end of 2010. The seizures have been performed against perfectly legal web-sites and/or against web-sites outside US jurisdiction. Administrators of some of those web-sites had been previously acquitted of any charge by courts in the European Union. The domain name seizures affect the world wide web in its entirety since they are performed bypassing the original registrar and forcing VeriSign and Afilias (american companies which administer TLDs like .org, .net, .info and .com) to transfer the domain name to USA authorities property. No proper judicial overview is guaranteed during the seizure. Given all of the above, we repute that these acts: - are a violation of EU citizens fundamental rights, as enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights; - are an attack against the Internet infrastructure and the cyberspace; - are a strong hint which shows that decision capacities of USA Department of Justice and ICE are severely impaired; and therefore from now on AirVPN does not recognize VeriSign, Afilias and/or ICANN authority over domain names. AirVPN refuses to resolve "seized" domain names to the IP address designated by USA authorities, allowing normal access to the original servers' websites / legitimate Ip addresses. In order to fulfil the objective, we have put in place an experimental service which is already working fine. If you find anomalies, please let us know, the system will surely improve in time. Kind regards AirVPN admins

Been using Eddie with no problems but for some reason when trying to run it, it will appear as a background process but won't display the main Eddie window. Can't think of anything major that's been installed in the mean time. Tried uninstalling and re-installing and running as admin all with no success. Have disabled virus and firewalls and stopped other processes but it still won't display the main Eddie window. Win10 is up to date and besides a couple of games (now uninstalled) nothing else has been installed. Something has obviously changed but I wondered if there was any way of finding out what the conflict is to cause the main window to not display. Or if there were any known issues with other programs that could stop Eddie displaying. Thanks. Update: Fixed this. Restored back to an earlier Windows creation point a few days old. Thinking it through I can see where the problem was - I'd installed an update to an app which played with the Windows UI and played with the toolbars - so Eddie was there I just couldn't see the icon and display the main window because it was hidden. Simple stuff and a bit daft of me to not spot this.

Hi Casper31. Thanks for the heads up. I'm a very much a novice here and am getting my head around QUBES and WHONIX. [One problem seems to be, I think I read, that QUBES has problems with some graphics cards.] A problem, I think, is that ToR appears to be compromised to some extent, according to news reports on the Snowden docs and also multiple court filings. So, if you want anonymity, privacy and security, you need a VPN + Tor or VPN + Qubes/Whonix. I have been reading up on the various tech collectives helping folks in repressive countries avoid being detected. For them, it can be a matter of life or death - and so these discussions. There are a number of people advocating a VPN cascade /multihop and ToR - another approach I've seen. But I do not have the technical expertise to judge. Given the way the West is itself engaging in mass surveillance, we may all need such technology soon. Even keeping a hand written diary is now illegal in some countries, if you work for or worked for the government there. Hello 1984.

They also reserve the right to kill anyone with a drone strike at the push of a button. No trial needed.

Not only the internet. They give themselves the right to invade any country in the world who doesn't play under their rules.

Here are some technical background informations. The gateways would push at constant load about, 2 Mbit/s: ~633 GB 6 Mbit/s: ~1.9 TB 10 Mbit/s: ~3.2 TB 25 Mbit/s: ~8 TB Min. server requirements: CPU: 1x (64Bit) RAM: 1GB HDD: 5-8GB NIC: 1x Software: Debian Wheezy (7) 64Bit Kernel fastd batman-adv-Kernelmodul The gateways are sponsored by the community and serve, in connection with the vpn, as exit node of the network, they are used also to connect different city´s and hackerspaces (e.g. ChaosVPN [1]). For more informations, just ask and i´ll provide as much as possible [1] http://wiki.hamburg.ccc.de/index.php/ChaosVPN