“VPN on Steroids” Launches on Kickstarter

Some questions you might have - for further questions, just ask anything. Question everything.

### What do you make and sell? ###

We are developing the Safing Privacy Network (SPN), most easily understood as a "VPN on steroids". However, we built the SPN from the ground up and do not rely on the decades-old VPN technology. As a result, we can truly protect our customers from prying eyes, such as an abusive Internet Service Provider.

### How do you distinguish yourself from the competition? ###

We wrote blog posts on how the SPN compares to VPNs and Tor:

- https://safing.io/blog/2020/01/22/how-the-spn-compares-to-vp...

- https://safing.io/blog/2020/01/22/how-the-spn-compares-to-to...

### What keeps you up at night (about your business) ?###

The importance of privacy has in upholding our democratic societies. If we cannot effectively resist mass surveillance, our society will slowly fade into a totalitarian, thought controlling dystopia. How to bring privacy solutions to the masses is what drives us.

### What are you hoping to do over the next year that you have not done before? Why? ###

In the next year, the SPN will evolve from a lab-tested product to a network handling hundreds and thousands of users. Since 2017, we were heavily investing into research and development. Finally bringing our product to the market is very exciting to us!

### What was your "eureka moment" that led you to start this organization or company? ###

The Snowden revelations triggered an "eureka moment" for Daniel, who realized how current privacy solutions simply don't cut it with the vast surveillance programs of intelligence agencies and big tech.

### Are you solving problems for your industry, for society, the world? Which Problem? How come nobody solved those problems before? ###

Mass surveillance impacts everyone connected to the Internet. With our world being so connected, it is hard to think of areas this does not affect. Manipulation, targeted financial exploitation and large scale censorship all already exist in societies around the world because of it.

There are a lot of smart people working on solving pieces of the puzzle, but most solutions end up being very technical and relying on technology not initially built for protecting privacy.

The SPN is built from the ground up, looking on how one would solve privacy with today's technology. It also focuses on ease of use before all, making it a breeze to use.