Category: News
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Unredacted is now a 501(c)(3) non-profit
Our 2024 Non-profit Fundraiser has come to a close, and we’re so thankful for all of the donations we received during the fundraising period. A huge thank you to everyone that donated to our cause and believed in us. We set out with the goal at the beginning of our fundraiser to form a non-profit,…
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FreeSocks is now open source
Censorship on the Internet is getting worse, not better. The free flow of information is key to learning and making change. Because of this, we started FreeSocks, a service that provides free, open & uncensored Outline (Shadowsocks) proxies to people in countries experiencing a high level of Internet censorship late last year (2023). Since then,…
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How we accidentally broke our Tor exit relays
Making technology work how you expect it to, and keep it working that way can be difficult at times. Changes in configuration or software updates can put services into a broken or half-broken state, and we had the latter happen to us. In the spirit of transparency, we are writing about the painful discovery that…
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New Tor bridge types for Operation Envoy
In July of last year (2023) we launched Operation Envoy, our effort to deliver packets to and from the Tor network which helps defeat Internet censorship. This is achieved by Unredacted operating Tor bridges, also known as Pluggable Transports. Tor bridges obfuscate (bridge) the connection a user makes when connecting to Tor so that it…
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UNREDACTED, a year in review (2023)
From our humble beginnings in 2015, to now (almost 2024), we’ve undergone many significant changes in the almost 9 years of our existence. We’ve established ourselves as a legitimate organization that is on a mission to fight Internet censorship, and provide various services to individuals & organizations seeking privacy and security. In 2023, a lot…
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Introducing FreeSocks, proxies that circumvent censorship
Easy censorship circumvention We despise censorship and human (& animal) rights abuses, and it’s time to fight back. In addition to Operation Envoy, our effort to provide stable and performant anti-censorship Tor bridges and snowflake proxies, we’re launching FreeSocks. FreeSocks is a free and open proxy service that aims provide an alternative to individuals that…
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What we’re doing in response to the jabber.ru MITM attack
As you may have heard, jabber.ru, a popular XMPP service discovered a sophisticated MITM attack against their service that may have lasted for up to 6 months. They published a great blog post, going over all the details of the attack and measures to prevent this sort of attack from happening on other services. From…
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Crypto World is now Unredacted!
Crypto World was an organization founded in 2015 by a group of friends to advocate for privacy, cryptography and security on the internet. We had a great community and forum, although we had decided to shut it down the forum due to life events. The community unfortunately died off as well. It held several projects…
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Unredacted, a new Tor relay operator
Unredacted is a new and special project. We’re focused on operating resilient, automated and security focused infrastructure. We’re dedicated to giving back to the community through open source and privacy focused projects. We’ve ran projects such as XMPP.is, a free and open XMPP/Jabber server and other projects under the Crypto World label for quite some…