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The new internet is private, welcome to NymVPN

[Nym @nym]

Nym is thrilled to announce our partnership with @ledger to provide NymVPN on the beautiful new Ledger Atom.

Every user of the Ledger Atom will get NymVPN installed, with one full year free. The most trusted hardware for crypto + the most private network to use it.

[Ledger @Ledger]

Your wealth is digital. The device you manage it with should be built for that.

Meet Ledger Atom™: the security of industry leading hardware, the convenience of your everyday apps, plus control over your AI tools, and a rapidly expanding platform of apps, all in one quantum ready device.

Agents propose. You approve. Your Ledger signer enforces.

[Nym @nym]

A private crypto transaction can hide what’s on-chain.

It doesn’t hide the IP address you broadcast it from.

That’s a separate leak, and the one the Nym mixnet is built to protect.

[Nym @nym]

https://t.co/rlBE9A64pG

[Nym @nym]

There are THOUSDANDS of Free VPNs out there, but how much does a Free VPN cost?

Your trust
Your metadata
Your anonymity

Here are the 5 ways free VPNs make money, and how to protect yourself ↓

[Nym @nym]

9 The code is open source, and there’s a 7-day trial with no ads and no data collection. Free VPNs sell your data. We don’t. Which of the 5 surprised you most? Reply with a number from 1 to 5.

[Nym @nym]

🇹🇷 Turkey: Under-15 social media restrictions took effect on November 1. Existing accounts must complete age verification by March 31, 2027.

🇬🇷 Greece: Parliament passed an under-15 social media ban on October 23. It is scheduled to take effect January 1, 2027.

🇪🇸 Spain: The government wants TikTok suspended nationally until it removes child sexual abuse material. A new escalation in Europe's fight over platform control.

🇦🇺 Australia: Reddit and the Digital Freedom Project are challenging the under-16 social media ban in the High Court. The restrictions remain in force during the case.

🇬🇧 UK: The government is pushing ahead with an under-16 social media ban, with implementation planned for 2027.

🇪🇺 European Union: The Commission has proposed an EU-wide framework for children's online access. The debate over age verification and minimum ages is intensifying.

🇦🇹 Austria: Its proposed under-14 ban has been delayed. EU intervention means it cannot proceed before July 2027.

🇸🇰 Slovakia: A bill setting 16 as the minimum age for social media passed its first parliamentary reading. More votes are needed.

🇵🇭 Philippines: The Senate and House have passed competing social media age-restriction bills. They must reconcile the proposals before presidential approval.

🇫🇷 France: The Constitutional Council struck down its under-15 social media ban in August. The government has since pursued a revised approach targeting addictive features.

🇦🇺 Australia: Almost 5 million accounts have reportedly been blocked across ten platforms. Yet the regulator found that more than 80% of under-16s were still using social media.

Did we miss anything?

[Nym @nym]

Social media ban update 🌍

Countries around the world are tightening access to the internet under the guise of protecting children. It is almost as if it is a coordinated effort to turn the internet into a walled garden with a digital ID gate.

Here are the latest updates↓

[Nym @nym]

This means that they want to scan every photo and every video on your device, at all times. Of course, this is used to prevent harm, make you a better parent and maybe stop terrorism.

What will be the next excuse?

[Nym @nym]

🇬🇧UK peers and MPs want scanning software on every phone and tablet.

Pre-installed spyware on every device.

Why this matters ↓

[Nym @nym]

Shocking, we know the reasoning used:

The amendment text requires “tamper-proof system software” on devices supplied for use in the UK, to prevent recording, transmitting (including livestreaming) and viewing of CSAM. The Observer says phones already in use would get it by a mandatory software update.

[Nym @nym]

@T3chFalcon https://t.co/034YK9wZjj

[Nym @nym]

We take your privacy seriously. We don't need to know who you are.

Traditional VPNs can link your payment information to your VPN subscription.

NYM uses zk-nyms, a zero-knowledge proof system that makes your payment identity unlinkable to your VPN usage.

Here's why that matters. ↓

[Nym @nym]

Even if a VPN says it has a "verified no-logs policy" it is not any better than a pinky promise not to spy on you.

Can't log by design > no log policy

[IT Guy @T3chFalcon]

Seven VPNs. every one of them said “no logs.”

july 2020: researchers found their shared database sitting open on the internet. no password.

1.2TB of data. over a billion log entries.

inside: plaintext passwords, IP addresses, connection timestamps, websites visited, home addresses, emails, payment info.

UFO VPN’s explanation: covid staff changes meant firewall bugs got missed. also, the logs were only for “performance monitoring” and were anonymized.

the researchers checked the samples. they weren’t anonymous.

the logs they swore didn’t exist were the ones that leaked.

[Nym @nym]

Privacy is power

[Nym @nym]

Dear Santa,
for Black Friday I would like a multi-hop mixnet, no ID checks, and zero-knowledge proofs at checkout.

P.S. Don’t log this letter.