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“Let’s Encrypt” now used by 5July.org

December 24, 2015 by admin

5th of July Foundation firmly supports the right to use encryption technology without backdoors or interference. Ideally all communication via the Internet should be encrypted.

We are therefore happy to announce that we have just started using Let´s Encrypt to issue the certificates that we use on our https web servers. Let us cite from their own presentation:

“Let’s Encrypt is a new Certificate Authority:  It’s free, automated, and open.”

Let’s encrypt is supported by Electronic Frontier Foundation and many major Internet corporations and organisations.

P.S. Our resident blogger HAX often comments on the politics of encryption and questions relating to freedom of communications. Read him! And yes, “he” uses a certificate from Let’s Encrypt since today also!

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Is Bitcoin the future for Greece and others?

July 1, 2015 by admin

Our resident blogger HAX claims that Bitcoin may be a currency for Greece. Well, he didn’t link to any support for this but maybe he is right? CNN Money writes that Greeks are rushing to Bitcoin.

At 5july.org we note that we received our first Bitcoin donation to support a free Internet on June 12, 2015. Thank you, anonymous donator for you 0.2 BTC!

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Support for EDRi.org

February 11, 2015 by admin

There is a very readable, informative and well-researched newsletter that the chairman of this foundation always reads when it appears in the mailbox: The EDRi-gram. It is a round-up of news from all over Europe from European Digital Rights, an organization based in Brussels. EDRi defends civil rights in the information society.

5th of July Foundation made a donation to their crowdsourcing campaign today, albeit small since our economy is very limited so far. We believe it is a worthy cause so do not hesitate to give something.

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Glenn Greenwald to Sweden?

February 3, 2015 by admin

5th of July Foundation considers whistleblowers and independent voices and journalists to be important catalysts for building a free society.

There is now a Kickstarter project to bring Glenn Greenwald to Sweden for an important media conference, together with Peter Sunde of the Pirate Bay and Julia Reda, Member of European Parliament for the Pirate Party (Germany). The topic is internet freedom. Greenwald is, as you may know, the journalist that was chosen by Edward Snowden to be his confidante and messenger.

Today this foundation has pledged 15.000 SEK (Swedish kronor) to bring Glenn Greenwald here. We believe that the media focus this would bring to these issues is exactly what this foundation wishes to promote.

We would urge other actors to contribute in order to make this event possible!

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5July nominee Snowden accepts Prize

December 1, 2014 by admin

5th of July Foundation nominated Edward Snowden to the Nobel Peace Prize, through its board member professor Love Ekenberg. Snowden did not get it.

Instead he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award, also called “the alternative Nobel Peace Prize”. Today on December 1, 2014, he accepted the Prize, at the ceremony that was held in the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm. Not in person of course. We take it as a proof that we were right!

Here is his reaction to the announcement that he would receive the Prize, in late September 2014.

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LEX Integrity

November 16, 2014 by admin

Today Bahnhof, the Swedish “Free Speech” Internet carrier, announced that they have a Plan B against what they and this Foundation consider being illegally enforced data retention in Sweden.

Yes, we have developed a service for Bahnhof called LEX Integrity which permits its customers to create a free account and surf via the VPN servers that are owned and managed by 5th of July Foundation.

Bahnhof will have to log data about their clients from November 24, i.e. what IP-address each client on their network is allocated each time the log on.

When a Bahnhof customer wants to surf via our servers they connect via PPTP. We at the foundation have no idea about who these customers are. We do not have any information about them, no name or address. We just check whether this (for us) unknown surfer should be permitted to connect via our servers.

When they surf via LEX Integrity they share IP addresses out towards the Internet. Many users can have the same address at the same time. As a provider of this service we do not have to retain data. Even if we would have to, there would be no useful information to be had from us.

The Foundation uses its own hardware and own technicians. Bahnhof has no access to our machines, they have no way of knowing what their customers are doing after handing them over to our servers.

We hereby invite other ISP:s to use similar bulk services. Please contact the chairman of the 5th of July Foundation for a quote. 

We have already been running more advanced VPN services since summer 2013.

The Foundation also runs a free public safe chat server that is open for anyone to use. You and your friends just have to create accounts and start chatting. Please use OTR encryption. 

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