There are thousands of VPNs available, and many of the so-called “free” ones are scams—collecting your data and selling it to shady data brokers. Remember, when you use a VPN, you’re shifting your trust from your internet provider to the VPN itself, so it’s critical to choose a trustworthy one. Bitmask is free to use and only connects to vetted providers like Riseup.net and The Calyx Institute—organizations with long histories of building tools to fight surveillance and defend your digital privacy.
In today’s attention economy, your data is the currency. Governments, ISPs, and big tech are tracking, collecting, and cashing in on every move you make online. Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) can help protect you. Bitmask is an open-source VPN app with no accounts, no logs, and no tracking — just a dead-simple, third-party-audited tool to keep your online life more private, fight back against surveillance capitalism, and make the internet a little more free.
Information drives politics and culture, and those who control its flow hold the power to shape what people believe. That’s why authoritarian regimes erect digital firewalls and restrict access to the open internet. Bitmask includes built-in tools to evade these controls, and the system behind it is self-hostable. Individuals or collectives can run their own private, circumvention-focused VPNs. Connect to one using a discreet URL or invite code, and you can bypass censorship.
Founded in 2012, LEAP is dedicated to giving all internet users access to secure communication. There are many fronts in the fight against the enclosure of the internet and the relentless efforts to surveil and monetize our lives. LEAP is part of the growing effort to expand the use of circumvention technology to protect us from government and corporate incursion into our online lives. LEAP builds and brands RiseupVPN, CalyxVPN, and Bitmask. https://leap.se
We’re at our best when the community jumps in. Many of our current team members started by submitting patches and squashing bugs that bugged them too.
Code, Bugs, and Fixes
Dive into our developer docs:
https://docs.leap.se/ Check out code, project plans, and more on our Gitlab instance—or find us on Github.
Translations & Localization
Join our volunteer crew on Transifex to help us translate. The Localization Lab lays it out with a quick guide to get started.
Let’s Chat
Hit us up on Matrix: #leap:systemli.org—we’d love to hear from you!
