VPN Service Surfshark is a popular vpn service provider that works natively on windows, macos and linux with a gui client app, and also has browser extensions for chrome and firefox. In this article we take a look at how the browser extensions of Surfshark vpn (and similar vpn providers) work under the hood. With… Read More »
OpenVPN OpenVPN is open source, secure and robust. It is readily available for most platforms and can be setup quickly. The SurfShark native client also uses OpenVPN underneath. It supports both tcp and udp based wrappers for vpn traffic over internet. UDP is significantly faster than tcp and works really well. There are multiple ways… Read More »
DNS Leak DNS Leak is commonly seen in vpn connections, when all the http traffic goes through the vpn tunnel, however the dns queries go directly to system/isp dns servers bypassing the vpn tunnel, which breaks the privacy protection offered by the vpn. Unless dns leaks are fixed, you are not fully privacy guarded in… Read More »