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We want YOU to join our team of awesome freedom technicians!

November 1, 2019 by admin

5th of July Foundation is hiring!

The 5th of July Foundation is recruiting.

We are looking for passionate digital freedom fighters who want to develop and maintain innovative network infrastructure that safeguards security, privacy and liberty for the world’s internet citizens.

You will work on a distance together with a small group of dedicated network technicians. You will be part of the continuous development of our VPN service, and you will be able to suggest your own services too that the foundation may offer in the future.

You must have a strong commitment to internet freedom. Maybe you are active in the pirate movement or the open source community? We want some kind of track record.

Send off an informal email today to info AT 5july.org. And let’s talk more!

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Do you want to build the VPN of the future?

March 16, 2018 by admin

The Swedish non-profit 5th of July Foundation runs the VPN service Integrity VPN since 2013. We are dedicated to providing the strongest possible security, and part of that goal is our unique setup: Integrity VPN is available solely through reselling ISP’s. That way, we can focus on running and developing a great service without having to handle any personal data – we don’t know who our users are, and that makes for great security.

Integrity VPN has evolved to a very stable VPN service. We run it solely on our own physical servers and continuously invest in new hardware to make sure that traffic peaks never hit the ceiling.

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Build the VPN service of the future with us

Do you want to join a small bunch of developers and network technicians to take Integrity VPN to the next level? There will be plenty of opportunities for the right person to shape the future Integrity VPN.

We are mainly looking for two persons (or one person with both competences):

1. DevOps person

You will work in the heart of the operation and further development of Integrity VPN:

  • Full IPv6 implementation,
  • Trying out new VPN protocols such as Wireguard,
  • Installing VPN servers in new locations (physically and/or remotely),
  • Adapting open source VPN clients to our needs.

You might not be an expert on all of this, but you should be knowledgeable about networks, server scripts, switches and routers, what is sometimes referred to as DevOps.

2. Developer

Except for Integrity VPN, the 5th of July Foundation offers other tools that enhance security, privacy and liberty for internet users.

  • As a developer, you will code these services, or adapt existing open source services to fit our needs.
  • You will also code for Integrity VPN, for example adapting open source GUI packages for various platforms.

You will also be able to suggest what services you want to code for us.

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You’re an activist

The 5th of July Foundation is a non-profit foundation founded by internet pioneers and activists. We believe in spreading security, privacy and liberty to all internet users.

It is important that you share these values, and that you can back it up: What have you done before? Maybe you were involved in the open source community? Maybe you have a background in the pirate movement? Don’t be shy!

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What you should know

  • We’re not hiring, technically. You will work as a freelancer who sends invoices (just like all of us, including the Executive Director).
  • You can be based anywhere. We are currently spread over three European countries with some kind of base in Berlin, Germany.
  • We’re not your regular business types. If you’re a bit of a social misfit, you’ll fit right in.
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How to apply

Get in touch now by sending an encrypted email to info (at) 5july.org where you introduce yourself and tell us a bit about your specialties, preferably with some links to previous projects of yours.

Do it now!

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Happy 5th of July – some updates

July 5, 2016 by admin

It’s the 5th of July 2016 today, and it’s been four years since the UN Human Rights Council adopted the “Resolution on the Promotion, Protection, and Enjoyment of Human Rights on the Internet”.

The 5th of July Foundation took its name from the day that bore those great aspirations:

Let’s promote, protect and enjoy human rights on the internet!

New podcast on internet politics

Our latest project to do this is a podcast, which covers internet politics in a broad sense. It’s in Swedish (so far) and we call it “5 juli-podden”. You can listen on for example Itunes, Soundcloud or Youtube.

Blog anniversary

Today also marks the two year anniversary for our resident blogger HAX, who is also co-host of the podcast. We’re celebrating by giving hax.5july.org a little facelift. As always, it’s somewhat of a challenge to make a blog work smoothly and look tasty without letting third party companies (read: Google) put their code on your pages.

Expanding our services

So far the “promotion” of human rights on the internet. What about the “protection” and the “enjoyment”?

It’s for those purposes that we run our privacy services: A free disposable email service (still beta), a free encrypted Jabber chat server, and our paid VPN service Integrity VPN, which we are now expanding, so that customers of more internet providers will have the choice to enhance the security, privacy and liberty of their everyday communication.

So that’s a brief update on our doings. We look forward to many interesting developments in the coming year. Cheers!

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Bahnhof vs. Data Retention

April 8, 2016 by admin

There is an important legal battle going on between the oldest independent ISP in Sweden, Bahnhof (which has always stood up for privacy on the internet) and The Swedish Post and Telecom Authority (PTS).

Our sponsored blogger, writer and thinker HAX comments the latest installment in this battle: Bahnhof won a temporary injunction which allows them to refuse to hand over certain data to authorities. Read about it here.

5th of July Foundation is happy that its board member Wilhelm Dahlborn wrote the appeal that the court now listened to.

There is also a legal case going on between Swedish telecom/internet provider Tele2 and that same authority, PTS, about data retention. The second highest administrative court in Sweden has sent that case to the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) in Luxemburg. On April 12, there will be an oral hearing in this case.

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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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