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PRIVACY BLOG & SECURITY GUIDES

A customer unplugged their Cox gateway and five BSSIDs disappeared at once. What the four hidden ones are doing, why CoxWiFi (and Xfinity, and Spectrum) deserve a closer look, and what GhostPort Sonar makes visible.

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REGION TOGGLE

We Just Cut Ping by 52ms for West-Coast Gamers

A regional WireGuard relay in San Jose drops west-coast gamer ping from 76ms to 24ms. SHA256-verified raw transcripts. The honest story of what we built and the framing error we almost shipped.

FIRST PENTEST

Closing the First Bug Bounty

Our first formal external security engagement is closed. 13 findings, three unauthenticated-disclosure fixes shipped, structural changes behind each so they stay fixed.

PACKET CAPTURE

Your Router Is Announcing Itself

A nine-second capture caught a normal home router announcing its make, model, and firmware version twenty times. The SSDP leak nobody talks about.

NO HIDDEN MAGIC

Teachable Security

Per-region help on the desktop apps + a sudo hardening pass that shrinks compromise blast radius to a 40-rule allowlist.

REAL DATA

632 Packets Dropped in 10 Hours

A quiet home network. 632 unsolicited packets silently dropped at the WAN boundary. On a consumer router, all of them reach your devices.

GHOSTPORT OS

GhostPort Phantom OS: Privacy Router Meets Private Desktop

One device, two modes. A custom-built OS stripped to the bone — 612 packages removed, self-healing guards, every feature for every user.

SECURITY

30 Vulnerabilities. 4 Rounds. 0 Mercy.

Before our pen testers even showed up, we ran a 4-round automated security audit and patched 30+ vulnerabilities.

INVESTIGATION

Your Router Can See You Breathe

WiFi sensing is shipping in consumer routers. Comcast, Amazon, Linksys already have it. Here's what it does.

EXPLAINER

Why Your Upload Speed Is So Slow

Cable ISPs deliberately throttle upload speeds. Here's the DOCSIS math and why your ISP likes it that way.

3,330 MBPS TESTED

Data Plane Separation — Dual-Tunnel Architecture

We split control and data traffic across independent WireGuard tunnels. 0.023ms jitter.

INCIDENT REPORT

Our Response to the Claude Code Source Leak

Anthropic's AI tool leaked. We deployed 5 security layers the same day.

INDUSTRY FIRST

How We Secure AI-to-AI Communication

HMAC signing, AES encryption, replay protection. No other router does this.

FEDERAL STANDARD

NIST Compliance on a Raspberry Pi

We mapped 110 federal cybersecurity controls to an $80 privacy router.

LEGAL SINCE 2017

Your ISP Sells Your Browsing History

Congress repealed your broadband privacy protections. Most people don't know.

HIDDEN COST

The Invisible Tax Your Router Charges You

Your router generates revenue for its manufacturer long after you bought it.

10,000+ DAILY PINGS

What Your Smart TV Sends Home

Your TV phones home thousands of times per day. Here's exactly what it reports.

PLAINTEXT LEAK

DNS: The Privacy Hole Nobody Talks About

Every website you visit is broadcast unencrypted. Your ISP sees all of it.

PROTECT YOUR KIDS

Why Your Kids' Privacy Depends on Your Router

Network-level protection on every device. No apps to install, no settings to bypass.

BYPASSED IN MINUTES

Why App Parental Controls Fail

Kids disable app-based controls in seconds. Network-level blocking can't be touched.

YOUR DATA FOR SALE

Data Brokers Know More Than Your Doctor

Companies you've never heard of buy and sell your browsing history every day.

MYTH BUSTER

What a VPN Actually Does

VPNs don't make you anonymous. Here's what they actually protect and what they don't.

25 STATES AND COUNTING

Half of America Requires Your ID to Browse

Age verification laws are creating a national ID system for the internet.

STILL COLLECTING

The TikTok Ban Failed

They banned the app. The data collection didn't stop. Technical solutions beat legislation.

ABOUT TIME

Advertisers' Death Warrants

The FCC is finally coming for routers that spy on you. Here's what it means.

TRUST BUT VERIFY

Why Open-Source Hardware Matters

Closed firmware can hide anything. Open hardware lets you inspect every line.

ZERO DISK

RAM-Only Servers

If we can't store it, we can't hand it over. Power off and the data is gone.

LIVE TRACKER

AWS Infrastructure Roadmap

Real-time progress on our cloud infrastructure buildout. Updated as we ship.

HEAD TO HEAD

GhostPort vs Firewalla

Open-source transparency vs proprietary black box. Feature-by-feature breakdown.

HEAD TO HEAD

GhostPort vs GL.iNet

Travel routers vs dedicated privacy hardware. Different problems, different answers.

OWNED BY AMAZON

GhostPort vs eero

Amazon owns eero. Amazon is the world's largest ad company. Connect the dots.

WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE

Bug Bounty Program

Find a vulnerability, collect the bounty. Rewards negotiated per finding. No lawyers, no NDAs.

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GhostPort User Guide

Setup, privacy modes, Family Shield, troubleshooting — everything in one place.

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