Several services are offered that tout online privacy, or military grade, or completely anonymous. These descriptors are inherently misleading and are red flags.
TheMadHacker has launched VeilGuard, acting as a hedge against misleading claims of anonymity, while still minimizing the end-user's digital footprint.
VEILGUARD
VeilGuard is a network offering encrypted tunnels all over the world, and in several different protocols: IKE2, IPSec, OpenVPN and WireGuard protocols to name a few. The client that uses VeilGuard does not subscribe to a single method of connecting and encrypting of traffic; each client is bounced from protocol to protocol, network to network on a non-regular schedule using atyptical routing. In short, there is no pattern by which traffic can be traced to a single source.
SOCKS5 encrypted tunnels are built, and open. Please follow the following instructions to connect to the SOCKS5 Tunnel, and as an added bonus the tunnel connects you to the Tor network as well.
Exclave is the best, ad-free Proxy, VPN, SOCKS, etc client out there, hands down. Here's a download link for the client from F-Droid, since Google Play store doesn't offer it...probably because it's completely free and full-featured.
- Open your SOCKS5 compatible software. Open the settings for network / proxy.
- Enter veilguard.net as the SOCKS5 proxy address.
- Enter port 9050 as the port to connect with.
- Use veilguard as the username, and themadhacker as the password.
The username / password has to be used to protect against automatic misuse of the system by malicious bots that like to send spam emails or use the system for DDoS attacks. I've seen a LOT of of misuse of that nature when deploying VeilGuard in the aplha and beta phase.
Once connected, your traffic through the SOCKS5 proxy will be encrypted, and regular web traffic will be routed through the Tor network and exit through an Exit Node. Further, utilizing the proxy with the above steps will connect you to the Tor network so any .onion address will be able to be resolved through a regular web browser (although this presents security issues if using a regular browser with JavaScript enabled). This is a convenient, quick way to connect to the Tor network without any 3rd party applications installed.
VeilGuard is far more than just the SOCKS5 proxy listed above; VeilGuard is a platform that combines different protocols and networks to minimize and obfuscate the user's digital footprint.
THE MERIT OF VEILGUARD IS MEASURED, THE CLIENTS ARE NOT.
Use the form below to register for VeilGuard, or just to learn more about the system that greatly reduces your digital footprint.
The use cases are numerous: some users need a way to securely connect to the internet for communication in a region that has closed off or heavily censored internet. Other users, like journalists, may have sensitive information that they do not want intercepted or modified. Often with man-in-the-middle attacks, subtle changes in addresses or html within a web page can completely derail financial transactions or compromise the integrity of secure conversations. Whether mission critical financial data or a call home from a hostile nation, the use cases are endless to protect your data from end-to-end.
During the design and alpha phase of VeilGuard, many of the services were free and open to the public...however, bad bots and irresponsible operators caused myriad issues, including DMCA complaints, DDoS reports, Spam via email and contact forms were all reported. Needless to say, access to the VeilGuard platform is no longer wide open to the entirety of the internet (most of which is dead, see "Dead Internet" post). However...
Registration is temporarily Open!
Fill out the form below, send a brief message of which services you want access to: (VeilGuard VPN, FileHost, Streaming Platform, Tor / Onion services). This helps show that you are not a bot.
