VPN’s

Normally, an internet service provider can see the flow of internet traffic entering and exiting your home modem or the traffic that goes through your mobile network. This means that the internet service provider (and by extension law enforcement) can track what websites you visit. By using a VPN, the internet service provider can only see that you connect to the VPN, and not the website that you ultimately connect to. A VPN is in essence just a tunnel that hides your internet traffic from your ISP.

A VPN will not provide you with absolute anonymity because the VPN provider itself will still have access to your real IP address, destination website information, timestamps of connections and often a money trail that can be linked directly back to you (if not anonymously paid). Depending on the policy of the VPN-provider this information may be logged. And in the case of government requests they can always start logging this information. Most VPN-providers are untrustworthy and unsuitable for Nationalist activists.

It is recommended to use a trustworthy VPN-provider for regular internet activity, and internet activity that could show interest in Nationalist ideology and activism.

If you decide to do more “high risk” internet activity that is related to serious activism and could make you a target of the surveillance state, we recommend to use Tor (with or without a VPN).

It’s essential to enable the kill switch feature once you have installed a VPN provider’s application. The kill switch prevents your internet traffic from leaking if the VPN connection unexpectedly drops.

If your chosen VPN provider also offers a lockdown mode, that’s even better. Lockdown mode restricts internet activity exclusively to traffic routed through the VPN provider. This means that even if the application is closed, no connection can be made outside the VPN.