yip is built by FEMBOY CYBER NETWORKS LLC, an independent entity registered in Utah.
On May 6, 2026, Utah enacted Senate Bill 73 — the Online Age Verification Amendments. As covered by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, it made Utah the first state to explicitly target the use of VPNs to circumvent geofenced, government-mandated identity checks — holding a website operator liable when a user reaches their platform from inside Utah even if that user is masking their location.
The EFF describes the liability trap this creates: a site that cannot reliably guess the physical origin of a privacy-protected IP faces a choice between banning every known commercial VPN range or forcing intrusive ID/biometric checks on every visitor to screen out hidden Utah users. The law also reaches toward a First Amendment problem by targeting the act of providing instructions for routing around local geofences.
"Blocking all known VPN and proxy IP addresses is a technical whack-a-mole that likely no company can win… The internet is built to, and will always, route around censorship." — EFF
Attacks on VPNs are attacks on the tools that enable digital privacy. The state's approach — enumerate and block commercial VPN IP ranges — only works against centralized providers with bannable data-center address blocks. yip's answer is architectural: a decentralized, CA-gated P2P mesh over opt-in NAT hole-punching and zero-signature obfuscation, with no data-center IP blocks to enumerate. We don't publish instructions for breaking local laws; we build open systems so that secure, low-latency, private networking stays available wherever you live.
This is the why. The README is the what and how, and is honest about what yip does and does not yet defend.