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(n+1)sec = privacy on the Net

By: dmitri On: December 09, 2014 Uncategorized Comments Disabled

In advance of this year’s Human Rights Day, eQualit.ie is proud to release the first public draft of a provably secure protocol for group messaging on the Internet. The protocol provides for end-to-end security of synchronous communications between any number of people. It is efficient and builds on recent advancements in cryptographic research. Security properties of (n+1)sec include: Confidentiality: the […]

Moving Your Site to HTTPS

By: dmitri On: November 26, 2014 Help, Security, Blog, Hosting Comments Disabled

HTTPS (adding an S for “secure” to HTTP) is an internet communication protocol that protects your users’ connections to your website. Data sent using HTTPS is secured in that HTTPS provides 3 layers of protection: Encryption: while the user is browsing a website, nobody can see their conversations, track their activities in the website, or […]

Recommendations for Improving Your WordPress SEO

By: dmitri On: November 14, 2014 Help, General, Hosting Comments Disabled

When it comes to search engine optimization (SEO), choosing the right WordPress theme framework becomes critical. Genesis does a great job of doing all the right things for search engine optimization (SEO). You will want to add some kind of analytics tracking to your site so you can gain insight about who is visiting your […]

Choosing a Canonical Website Address

By: dmitri On: October 07, 2014 Help, General, Blog, Hosting Comments Disabled

Canoni-what? Canonical is the word used to describe the one address that you want the world to go to when they look you up. The typical choices are whether to use www in front of your domain or not. The classic example follows: http://www.example.com/ or http://example.com/ Choosing what your canonical website address (URL) will be […]

Standing strong in August

By: dmitri On: September 16, 2014 DDoS Comments Disabled

Ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East saw a stream of independent media and human rights organizations turn to Deflect for DDoS protection. The network delivered over 75 million pages to legitimate readers in August, our highest numbers to date. One week in particular stood out as we brought on-board two websites in the midst of ongoing DDoS […]

Secure Hosting Guide available now

By: dmitri On: June 23, 2014 Uncategorized Comments Disabled

We are pleased to announce the launch of our Secure Hosting Guide, available now on learn.equalit.ie. The guide has been produced in collaboration with our friends at Huridocs and will be useful for anyone who wants to know the key factors involved when looking for a good hosting provider. It has been written for users […]

DDoS mitigation on a network of principles and openness

By: dmitri On: June 12, 2014 Inspiration, DDoS, Advocacy Comments Disabled

Yesterday saw the public launch of Project Galileo, a CloudFlare initiative that partners with reputable international advocacy and civil society organizations to offer free DDoS mitigation services to human rights and independent media groups. As with our support for Google’s Project Shield last year, we welcome all attempts to bring DDoS mitigation to a wider […]

Take Back The Net!

By: dmitri On: June 02, 2014 Digital Security, Advocacy Comments Disabled

This week eQualitie will be attending Take Back The Net, a two-day conference in which “human rights advocates and transformative technology providers will meet to discuss what civil society organisations and individuals can do to restore trust in communication infrastructure”. We are attending as guests of the Association of Progressive Communications, organisers of the conference […]

Training in the Ukraine

By: dmitri On: June 02, 2014 Digital Security, Ukraine Comments Disabled

eQualit.ie undertook two missions during the last month to work with independent media workers and aspiring digital security trainers from across the Ukraine. Over one hundred news media workers were trained in secure communications and a very capable group of future trainers were taken through the advanced training so that this valuable knowledge can continue […]

Sweden gets eQualitie

By: dmitri On: June 02, 2014 Advocacy Comments Disabled

Last week eQualitie attended the Stockholm Internet Forum 2014, an annual gathering of multi-stakeholders from internet governance, global civil society, freedom of expression networks, independent media and even some progressive-minded government types. We spent three days meeting with activists, journalists and policy makers to listen to their concerns and discuss the best ways forward for […]

Feeling Insecure? Try some Digital Self-Help

By: dmitri On: May 29, 2014 Uncategorized Comments Disabled

We’re launching a free guide for teaching yourself Digital Security which can be accessed right here. Over the last 8 years, eQualitie has been leading Digital Security trainings in dozens of countries for hundreds of activists and journalists, as well building two Digital Security schools and training many others to become trainers themselves. Every year […]

Mid-May in Tunisia

By: dmitri On: May 24, 2014 Digital Security Comments Disabled

We are in Tunis this week leading a series of “training of trainers” sessions at DSS 216 , the Digital Security School set up by eQualitie in conjunction with our friends at Alternatives, the long-established Montreal NGO. The school is staffed by co-ordinators from across the Middle East and North Africa and operates in Arabic […]

Q1 2014 Traffic Report: DDoStoyevsky’s Crimean Punishment

By: dmitri On: May 02, 2014 Technology, DDoS Comments Disabled

In the last 12 months we have seen steady growth in many aspects of the Deflect project, particularly with respect to membership, traffic, localisation and network capacity. The most significant contributing factors have been the uptake of more partners, the efficacy of our new banning software and the continued rise in DDoS attacks as a […]

DBP: Our Philosophy

By: dmitri On: May 02, 2014 Technology Comments Disabled

The Deflect team has spent the last two years mitigating DDoS attacks against independent media and human rights websites. We’ve learnt a thing or two along the way and have put a lot of effort into developing open source software to make our lives (and weekends) a bit easier. The BotnetDBP project consists of four […]

Changing Your Database Password

By: dmitri On: April 09, 2014 Security, Hosting, Help Comments Disabled

We are serious about our passwords here at Deflect. You might have noticed our 23 random character passwords for your WordPress admin user we generated during the installation of your site. That’s the kind of password that will keep your site safe from brute force and dictionary attacks. The random.org site provides some tools for […]

First Steps with Your eQPress Site

By: dmitri On: March 14, 2014 Help, General, Hosting Comments Disabled

Your shiny new eQPress site is ready to go! Now what? Here are some recommendations. Enable “pretty” permalinks under “Settings” -> “Permalinks”. Typically “Post name” is a good option, but you can choose whichever setting you prefer other than “Plain”. The reason for doing this is two-fold: on the one hand, your URLs just look […]

The Best Options for Email Subscriptions with WordPress

By: dmitri On: February 03, 2014 Help, Plugins, Hosting Comments Disabled

The best option is to use MailChimp to manage your subscriber lists and also to send the emails. There are plugins that can integrate with your MailChimp account but even that is unnecessary if all you want is to add email addresses and then send emails when you write a new blog post. The way […]