The sentiment that living without a VPN has become impossible reflects not a universal technical requirement, but the divergence of the internet into regionally incompatible realities.
On May 12, 2026, a researcher published YellowKey, a Windows Recovery Environment bypass allowing physical-access attackers to unlock BitLocker-protected drives on Windows 11 systems. The vulnerability exposes the difference between cryptographic strength and systemic trust architecture.
Onion Mail has been criticized publicly over the years for login failures, Tor connection issues, mobile app problems, and concerns about security architecture. Most of those criticisms were written between 2015 and 2023. This article documents what has changed since then, what has not, and how the service operates today — with verification paths for … Read more
Bill C-22, introduced to Canadian Parliament in March 2026, mandates metadata retention for up to one year and grants the Minister of Public Safety broad power to compel technical capabilities from electronic service providers – including encryption circumvention.