Openscore VPN · Notebook https://vpntestor.com/en/news VPN guides, news, and methodology notes covering no-logs claims, jurisdiction, evidence-based rankings, and cited research. en Tue, 28 Jul 2026 02:11:45 GMT © 2026 Openscore VPN. All rights reserved. Openscore VPN 2026 SingLinkVPN Third-Party Security Audit Report: Cross-Platform Security Tests Passed with a Score of 100/100 https://vpntestor.com/en/news/singlink-vpn-v25-security-audit-2026 https://vpntestor.com/en/news/singlink-vpn-v25-security-audit-2026 Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT VPNTestor Platform VPNTestor Platform's complete July 2026 third-party security audit report covering SingLinkVPN clients, leak protection, access controls, remediation, scoring, and limitations. VPNTestor Platform's complete July 2026 third-party security audit report covering SingLinkVPN clients, leak protection, access controls, remediation, scoring, and limitations.

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]]> SingLink VPN security assessment VPN leak testing v2.5 2026 VPN Audit Transparency Index 2026 https://vpntestor.com/en/news/vpn-audit-transparency-index-2026 https://vpntestor.com/en/news/vpn-audit-transparency-index-2026 Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT VPNTestor Platform A source-linked index of the VPN audits currently recorded by VPNTestor Platform. It separates a public report from a provider summary, records scope and tested version, and states what the evidence cannot establish. A source-linked index of the VPN audits currently recorded by VPNTestor Platform. It separates a public report from a provider summary, records scope and tested version, and states what the evidence cannot establish.

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]]> VPN audits audit transparency security reports primary sources 2026 SingLink VPN: what an external security audit can, and cannot, verify https://vpntestor.com/en/news/singlink-vpn-security-audit https://vpntestor.com/en/news/singlink-vpn-security-audit Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Openscore VPN team We ran the parts of a professional VPN security audit that can be done from the outside on SingLink VPN: transport-layer configuration, the App Store record, and the protocol, transparency, logging and jurisdiction posture read from its own documents. The transport layer is modern. The security-critical core, the protocol and the independent-audit trail, is either unverifiable by design or absent. Here is exactly what checks out, what does not, and what no outsider can confirm. We ran the parts of a professional VPN security audit that can be done from the outside on SingLink VPN: transport-layer configuration, the App Store record, and the protocol, transparency, logging and jurisdiction posture read from its own documents. The transport layer is modern. The security-critical core, the protocol and the independent-audit trail, is either unverifiable by design or absent. Here is exactly what checks out, what does not, and what no outsider can confirm.

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]]> security-audit singlink tls protocols transparency Open-source VPN protocols, compared: what still works in China and Russia https://vpntestor.com/en/news/open-source-vpn-protocols-china-russia https://vpntestor.com/en/news/open-source-vpn-protocols-china-russia Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Openscore VPN team A technical tour of the open-source protocols behind modern VPNs (WireGuard, OpenVPN, IPsec/IKEv2, OpenConnect, SoftEther) and the circumvention layer built on top of them (Shadowsocks-2022, VLESS+REALITY, Trojan, Hysteria2, TUIC, NaiveProxy): how they differ, which is genuinely faster or safer, and, with dated and cited sources, how each holds up against China's Great Firewall and Russia's TSPU as of mid-2026. A technical tour of the open-source protocols behind modern VPNs (WireGuard, OpenVPN, IPsec/IKEv2, OpenConnect, SoftEther) and the circumvention layer built on top of them (Shadowsocks-2022, VLESS+REALITY, Trojan, Hysteria2, TUIC, NaiveProxy): how they differ, which is genuinely faster or safer, and, with dated and cited sources, how each holds up against China's Great Firewall and Russia's TSPU as of mid-2026.

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]]> protocols wireguard openvpn shadowsocks reality censorship china russia Why a VPN's jurisdiction matters more than its marketing https://vpntestor.com/en/news/why-vpn-jurisdiction-matters https://vpntestor.com/en/news/why-vpn-jurisdiction-matters Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Openscore VPN team “Based in a privacy-friendly country” is a line on almost every VPN's homepage. Jurisdiction is real and worth understanding, but the marketing version glosses over the parts that actually decide whether it protects you. A short, honest guide to what a VPN's country of registration does and doesn't buy you. “Based in a privacy-friendly country” is a line on almost every VPN's homepage. Jurisdiction is real and worth understanding, but the marketing version glosses over the parts that actually decide whether it protects you. A short, honest guide to what a VPN's country of registration does and doesn't buy you.

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]]> jurisdiction privacy five-eyes ownership What a “no-logs” claim actually proves, and what it doesn't https://vpntestor.com/en/news/what-a-no-logs-claim-proves https://vpntestor.com/en/news/what-a-no-logs-claim-proves Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Openscore VPN team Almost every VPN says it keeps no logs. The phrase is doing a lot of work and most of it is unverified. Here is how to read a no-logs claim: what the words commit a provider to, what they leave out, and the three things that turn a marketing line into evidence. Almost every VPN says it keeps no logs. The phrase is doing a lot of work and most of it is unverified. Here is how to read a no-logs claim: what the words commit a provider to, what they leave out, and the three things that turn a marketing line into evidence.

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]]> no-logs privacy logging audits What “no evidence” means on a score, and why it never lowers a rating https://vpntestor.com/en/news/what-no-evidence-means-on-a-score https://vpntestor.com/en/news/what-no-evidence-means-on-a-score Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Openscore VPN team A blank on this site is an admission about us, not a verdict about the provider. A dimension we hold no evidence for is dropped from the average, never scored as zero, because punishing a provider for a gap in our research would reward whichever providers we researched least. A blank on this site is an admission about us, not a verdict about the provider. A dimension we hold no evidence for is dropped from the average, never scored as zero, because punishing a provider for a gap in our research would reward whichever providers we researched least.

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]]> methodology coverage honesty Catching a server that can't be where it claims https://vpntestor.com/en/news/catching-a-server-that-cannot-be-where-it-claims https://vpntestor.com/en/news/catching-a-server-that-cannot-be-where-it-claims Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Openscore VPN team A server list is a claim; the speed of light is not. Because light in fibre covers about 200 km every millisecond, a round-trip time sets a hard ceiling on how far away a machine can be. When the ceiling is smaller than the distance to the city on the label, the label is wrong. A server list is a claim; the speed of light is not. Because light in fibre covers about 200 km every millisecond, a round-trip time sets a hard ceiling on how far away a machine can be. When the ceiling is smaller than the distance to the city on the label, the label is wrong.

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]]> server-authenticity measurement methodology Publication level beats audit count https://vpntestor.com/en/news/publication-level-beats-audit-count https://vpntestor.com/en/news/publication-level-beats-audit-count Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Openscore VPN team “Independently audited” is the industry's favourite adjective and its least informative one. Our transparency score does not count audits; it reads them. A single full report a reader can open outweighs a shelf of summaries nobody outside the provider has seen. “Independently audited” is the industry's favourite adjective and its least informative one. Our transparency score does not count audits; it reads them. A single full report a reader can open outweighs a shelf of summaries nobody outside the provider has seen.

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]]> transparency audits methodology Why we publish a five-way tie instead of a Top 5 https://vpntestor.com/en/news/five-way-tie-not-a-top-5 https://vpntestor.com/en/news/five-way-tie-not-a-top-5 Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Openscore VPN team Every score on this site is an interval, not a point. Ranking follows from those intervals by dominance, a provider ranks above another only when its guaranteed minimum clears the other's best possible maximum. On today's corpus that relation is empty, so we print one honest tie rather than a manufactured 1-2-3. Every score on this site is an interval, not a point. Ranking follows from those intervals by dominance, a provider ranks above another only when its guaranteed minimum clears the other's best possible maximum. On today's corpus that relation is empty, so we print one honest tie rather than a manufactured 1-2-3.

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