Tag: research

Is VPN Legal in Your Country?

TheBestVPN.com published a study of whether or not VPNs are legal in 196 countries around the world.  There is a summary for each, and some links to details of the research.

VPNs are legal, generally.

It depends largely on the country you’re physically sitting in while using a VPN. But even then, their laws and restrictions are often opaque.  What’s legal vs. illegal is not always clear.  Some activities, while frowned upon, are still shrouded in grey area.  In this research we fact-checked 196 countries laws and their opinions on VPNs.

VPNs are illegal in: China, Turkey, Iraq, United Arab Emirates, Belarus, Oman.

VPNs are some-what illegal in: Iran, North-Korea, Turkmenistan.

P.S.: If you can’t access the links above, VPN is probably illegal (or at least blocked) in your country or region.

Domain names and web hosting research

Web Hosting Geeks published a very extensive research into domain names and web hosting provider options.  It includes the analysis of domain name trends by TLD, as well as over 24,000 hosting companies and how they are doing.

Complete with reviews, and detailed stats about each and every company, I think, this is one of the most complete and in-depth data I’ve seen for a long time.

Online censorship ranked by country

vpnMentor blog runs a post with a lengthy infographic ranking online censorship in different countries.  There’s plenty of interesting data regarding torrents, social media, political media, pornography, and other types of online censorship targets.

Docker Image Vulnerability Research

Federacy has an interesting research in Docker image vulnerabilities.  The bottom line is:

24% of latest Docker images have significant vulnerabilities

This can and should be improved, especially given the whole hierarchical structure of Docker images.  It’s not like improving security of all those random GitHub repositories.