Our Authors

Meet the expert writers and researchers behind VPNVerdict.

Marcus Reid

Editor-in-Chief

Marcus spent six years on the Ars Technica security desk before anyone cared about VPNs — back when he was filing FOIA requests on NSA surveillance programs and...

VPN protocol analysis
Speed benchmarking
Privacy audits

Elena Vasquez

Senior Privacy Analyst

Elena graduated from Georgetown Law with a focus on digital rights, then immediately realized that nobody in the VPN industry had actually read their own privac...

Privacy policy analysis
Jurisdiction research
Streaming unblocking

Daniel Cho

Contributing Security Researcher

Daniel is the reason three major VPN providers quietly patched their kill switches in 2023 — he disclosed the vulnerabilities through responsible channels, wait...

Protocol security audits
Leak testing
Encryption analysis