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Cross-platform privacy-hardening program. Two-layer product: - SilverLABS Application Stack (cross-platform spine) - Platform Hardening Profiles (per-OS, tier-honest) Platforms: Linux (Debian/Kicksecure), Android (Pixel/Samsung/Moto/generic), Windows (LTSC IoT), macOS (profile), iOS (MDM profile). Each flavour has both a preflashed hardware SKU path and a self-apply "harden your existing device" path. Includes umbrella docs (README + threat-model, design-principles, platform-matrix, roadmap, trust-model), per-platform and per-stack- component README stubs, .gitignore, LICENSE. Linux v1 ships first; Stack v1 = Browser + VPN + Sync. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
SilverVPN
Status: v1 (Linux MVP) — planning
Always-on VPN with no logs, run on SilverLABS infrastructure. Mullvad-style account-number signup (no email, no name).
v1 approach
- Protocol: WireGuard. Period. (Battle-tested, tiny attack surface, performant.)
- Account: random 16-digit account number; no email, no PII
- Payment: separate channel (SilverDotPay / crypto / payment processor) with no link back to account number
- Exit nodes: SilverLABS-operated initially; geographically diverse
- Kill-switch: enforced at firewall layer (nftables on Linux, NetworkExtension content filters on Apple)
- DNS: encrypted DNS through tunnel; no DNS leaks
- Per-device keys: each device gets its own WireGuard key; revoke per-device
Server-side
Lives in SilverLABS/silver-vpn-infra (separate repo). This repo holds the client code only.
What we do not do
- We do not log connection metadata beyond what is operationally required (typically just real-time peer state, not retained)
- We do not bundle ad-blocking — that's the browser's job, not the VPN's
- We do not bundle tracker-blocking heuristics in the VPN — that risks false positives that break sites
- We do not run a "free tier" with a different infrastructure — paid users and free users (if any) get the same server quality
Per-platform clients
- Linux: GTK + native daemon (
silvervpn-daemonrunning as systemd service) - Android: VpnService-based, native UI
- Windows: WireGuard tunnel service + tray UI (signed)
- macOS: NetworkExtension, signed and notarised
- iOS: NetworkExtension via App Store
Verification
- Kill-switch test: disconnect upstream, verify zero packets leak
- DNS-leak test: capture DNS during tunnel-up; all queries must traverse the tunnel
- Reconnect test: WAN flap, verify reconnect without temporary leak