The Short Answer: Does Phishing Protection Sell Your Data? Buying a standalone phishing protection suite does not inherently sell your data, but it absolutely depends on where your traffic terminates and who holds the logs. My testing in the Austin lab proves that services like Proofpoint and Mimecast offer superior detection rates because they inspect…
NordVPN vs ProtonVPN Lab Showdown: Austin Home Lab Performance and Failure Analysis In the chaotic noise of the Austin tech scene, where every vendor claims their infrastructure is “bulletproof” without offering a single packet capture to prove it, I have tested the two most hyped consumer VPNs on my dedicated Proxmox cluster. The short answer…
The Short Answer: Why I Built My Own VPN Router in Austin and Why You Should Too I have spent twelve years testing enterprise networks in the Texas heat, and I have concluded that buying a “plug-and-play” VPN router is a waste of money for anyone who understands network topology. The best VPN routers for…
Smart Home Security on Debian: Why Your Router Cannot Be a Firewall and What Actually Works in My Lab If you are looking to secure your smart home network by installing a full Debian Linux distribution directly onto your consumer-grade router hardware, you are about to experience exactly what I call the “Hardware Compatibility Disaster.”…
Free PDF — 14 VPNs tested on a real Proxmox home lab in Austin, TX. Kill switch times, DNS leak results, and pfSense integration ratings.
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