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Deflect y eQPress

By: dmitri On: August 29, 2017 DDoS, Help Comments Disabled

Sobre Deflect El proyecto Deflect es un servicio que disminuye las afectaciones de un “Distributed Denial of Service” o Ataques distribuidos de denegación de servicio (DDoS). DDoS se refiere al intento de hacer un aparato o red (network) no disponible para el usuario. Deflect neutraliza los cyberattacks contra medios independientes y defensores de derechos humanos. […]

Introducing (n+1)sec – a protocol for distributed multiparty chat encryption

By: dmitri On: August 10, 2017 Uncategorized Comments Disabled

Today we present (n+1)sec, a free (libre), end-to-end secure, synchronous protocol for group chat developed by eQualit.ie with support from the Open Technology Fund. After 2 years of design, development and testing, we are releasing the (n+1)sec protocol and library for securing group conversations on various messaging systems, like Jabber/XMPP or IRC. Following a protocol and […]

Distributed Deflect – project review

By: dmitri On: March 23, 2017 DDoS, Advocacy, General, Blog, Deflect Comments Disabled

This is the fifth year of Deflect operations and an opportune time to draw some conclusions from the past and provide a round of feedback to our many users and peers. We fought and won several hundred battles with various distributed denial of service and social engineering attacks against us and our clients, expanding the […]

IFF Tech&Tools Showcase 2017 – #12 Zifra

By: Floriana On: March 07, 2017 IFF Showcase 2017 Comments Disabled

Zifra is a building a memory card with state-of-the-art encryption capabilities. Not only does it encrypt, but it also hides the files so that they become invisible to prying eyes. Two guiding principles in Zifra’s development are openness and user-friendliness. Verified open source code is used for crucial parts of the solution and Zifra’s technology […]

IFF Tech&Tools Showcase 2017 – #11 Z.cash

By: Floriana On: March 07, 2017 IFF Showcase 2017 Comments Disabled

Freedom of expression comes in many forms. One of them is the ability to send value to another person or business regardless of location or intent. Current financial privacy models are based on centralized systems which historically limit inclusion to the global market and are susceptible to compromise and potentially unlawful subpoenas, as highlighted in […]

IFF Tech&Tools Showcase 2017 – #10 Wire

By: Floriana On: March 07, 2017 IFF Showcase 2017 Comments Disabled

Wire is a secure, end-to-end encrypted messenger. It’s open source, works on phones, tablets and computers, supports up to 7 devices per account, and doesn’t require a phone number to register. Wire is headquartered in Switzerland with servers in the EU.Wire started with an idea that people need and deserve a privacy-focused messenger that wasn’t […]

IFF Tech&Tools Showcase 2017 – #9 Toosheh

By: Floriana On: March 07, 2017 IFF Showcase 2017 Comments Disabled

52% of the world population does not have access to any form of internet. 80% of the world doesn’t have access to an internet that is 100% uncensored. Toosheh is an innovation that can provide access to free data to a lot of people with a limited or no internet access all over the world […]

IFF Tech&Tools Showcase 2017 – #8 pretty Easy privacy (p≡p)

By: Floriana On: March 07, 2017 IFF Showcase 2017 Comments Disabled

p≡p stands for pretty Easy privacy. The idea is to make end-to-end cryptography accessible to everyone by automatizing all steps usually taught to users at CryptoPartys, starting from OpenPGP encryption for email and then including chat communication channels like XMPP+OTR. p≡p end user software comes along with a cloudless (peer-to-peer) synchronization protocol allowing users to […]

IFF Tech&Tools Showcase 2017 – #7 Passbolt

By: Floriana On: March 07, 2017 IFF Showcase 2017 Comments Disabled

Passbolt is an open source password manager built for collaboration. It allows teams to securely share and store credentials – like the wifi password of their office, their organisation’s Twitter handle or the administrator password of their router. It’s 2017 and the most popular passwords are still “123456” and “azerty”. Most people still reuse passwords […]

IFF Tech&Tools Showcase 2017 – #6 Paskoocheh

By: Floriana On: March 07, 2017 IFF Showcase 2017 Comments Disabled

Due to heavy information controls, Iranians face significant challenges when attempting to access the Internet. In addition, popular Iranian app markets such as Cafe Bazaar are not allowed to distribute any circumvention tools, and many tool developers over-comply with sanctions by not making their tools available to Iranians. Paskoocheh is a response to these problems. […]

IFF Tech&Tools Showcase 2017 – #5 Gridsync

By: Floriana On: March 07, 2017 IFF Showcase 2017 Comments Disabled

Gridsync is an open source, cross-platform desktop application and graphical user interface for Tahoe-LAFS, the Least Authority File Store. Tahoe-LAFS’s unique design offers a number of highly-desirable features for users that require secure and reliable cloud storage: its “provider-independent” security model ensures that storage service providers cannot read or alter the data of their […]

IFF Tech&Tools Showcase 2017 – #4 Coral Project Talk

By: Floriana On: March 07, 2017 IFF Showcase 2017 Comments Disabled

Online comments are broken: managing interactions with readers can be so challenging that many newsrooms are closing comments. This may be a way of saving on resources, but also isolates journalists from their readers. The Coral Project – a project focused on the needs of community journalists founded by Mozilla, The New York Times, and […]

IFF Tech&Tools Showcase 2017 – #3 Certbot

By: Floriana On: March 07, 2017 IFF Showcase 2017 Comments Disabled

In a nutshell, Certbot is a tool for getting certificates from the Let’s Encrypt certificate authority (CA) and configuring your web server to encrypt users’ connections to your website with Let’s Encrypt certificates. But there’s more to it: Certbot is an easy-to-use automatic client that fetches and deploys SSL/TLS certificates for your webserver. Developed by […]

IFF Tech&Tools Showcase 2017 – #2 Bitmask

By: Floriana On: March 07, 2017 IFF Showcase 2017 Comments Disabled

Bitmask is an open source desktop app that aims to be an intuitive and easy-to-use client for VPN and Encrypted Email. Bitmask is a project developed by LEAP, a non-profit dedicated to giving all internet users access to secure communication, with a focus on making encryption technology easy to use and widely available. LEAP is […]

IFF Tech&Tools Showcase 2017 – #1 Amnesty Decoders

By: Floriana On: March 07, 2017 IFF Showcase 2017 Comments Disabled

Amnesty Decoders is an initiative by Amnesty International born out of a desire to inspire a new generation of digital activists to contribute in real time to human rights research. With this project, Amnesty started building a community of tens of thousands of volunteers who are helping the organisation turn mountains of messy data into […]

eQualit.ie at the Internet Freedom Festival

By: Floriana On: March 03, 2017 Inspiration, Technology, Blog Comments Disabled

The Internet Freedom Festival (IFF), the Global Unconference of the Internet Freedom Communities, will take place in Valencia, Spain, from the 1st to the 6th March 2017. With over 1000 participants from more than 100 countries, and with 40% of women registered in the event, the IFF focuses on inclusivity and skill sharing and will […]

Distributed Denial of Women – a general strike

By: Floriana On: February 13, 2017 Inspiration, Advocacy, Blog Comments Disabled

It’s a well-known problem: the tech industry, be it proprietary or open source, hasn’t managed to tackle inequality in its ranks despite several proactive efforts and millions of dollars invested to diversify their staff. There are many explanations and critiques of these approaches, but in the end what counts is that technology is still developed […]

Who bytes your bits? – digital security training in Toronto

By: Floriana On: February 08, 2017 Blog Comments Disabled

On the 9th February eQualit.ie’s director Dmitri Vitaliev will lead a digital security training for high-risk journalism hosted by journalist Susana Ferreira as part of #OffAssignment Toronto, a series of workshops and talks for freelance journalists and independent media-makers in Toronto, and organized with the support of CJFE at the DAIS Tkaronto Gallery in Toronto […]

Deflect in 2016 – an overview

By: Floriana On: January 18, 2017 Blog Comments Disabled

In 2016, Deflect set some records and helped defend online voices against some record breaking attacks. Throughout the year, Deflect served a bit less than 2% of the population connected to the Internet in 2016, published 3 DDoS analytic reports, mitigated the strongest DDoS attack that ever targeted our network, renewed its funding and began […]

Deflect Stats December 2016

By: Floriana On: January 10, 2017 Blog, Deflect stats Comments Disabled

In December 2016 the Deflect network recorded a slight increase in the number of total hits as compared to the previous month, with a comparable number of unique visitors and banning events. Overall, our edges served 635.4 million pages to 9.6 million unique visitors and banned 36,681 bots. The following pie charts offer some […]