Nolan Voss
Former Penetration Tester. Home Lab Builder.

Who I Am

My name is Nolan Voss. I spent 12 years in enterprise IT security — the last four as a penetration tester at a fintech firm in Austin, Texas. I tested production networks for a living, which means I spent those years finding the gaps between what vendors claim and what their products actually do under real conditions.

In 2022 I went independent. I now work as a security consultant for small and mid-size businesses, and I run this site as a side project. The home lab I built for client work became the testing environment for SpywareInfoForum. Every product I review gets tested on the same hardware I use for paid engagements.

I built SpywareInfoForum because I was tired of VPN reviews that consist of a speed test on a single Windows laptop and a summary of the privacy policy. My reviews are different. I run VPNs through a pfSense firewall with Suricata IDS enabled. I capture traffic in Wireshark and check for unexpected connections. I verify kill switch behavior by physically severing the WAN uplink. I run DNS leak tests 500 times, not once.

The result is reviews that reflect real-world lab conditions rather than vendor marketing. I do not accept payment for coverage. I do not rank products based on affiliate commission rates. When something fails in my lab I publish the failure with specifics — the exact error, the exact setting, the exact fix.