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As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. VPN marketing is one of the most inflated corners of the tech industry. “Military-grade encryption.” “Zero logs guaranteed.” “Blazing fast speeds.” These phrases appear in essentially every VPN’s marketing copy regardless of whether they’re accurate. I want to tell you what I actually measured and what the fine print in those privacy policies actually says. I ran speed tests over three weeks, tested on a 500 Mbps fiber connection, and spent time reading the actual privacy policies and third-party audit reports for Mullvad, NordVPN, and ExpressVPN. What follows is a real comparison, not a sponsored ranking. ...

As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. I’ve been using a password manager since 2017. In that time I’ve bounced between LastPass (left after the 2022 breach), 1Password, and finally settled into a routine with Bitwarden that I’ve been happy with for over a year. I’m not going to pretend I’m a cryptographer, but I’ve spent enough time reading security documentation, migration guides, and breach post-mortems to have real opinions about this category. ...