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Internet Freedom is Here: FreeSocks v2
The Internet as we know it is in danger and democracy is under attack. Around the world state censors are working to restrict access to information, and prevent people from sharing their own. With growing access to technology, we need to ensure that information remains free at serious infrastructure scale – and we think we…
DDoS attacks on our primary network
Starting on February 15th, our primary network AS401720 was hit with a series of L3/L4 DDoS attacks from a Mirai botnet. For those not aware, a DDoS attack is designed to take down services and networks (not breach something). The attacks peaked at over 100 Mpps (million packets per second) and over 10 Gbps in…
The UK Online Safety Act & age verification
The Matrix.org Foundation posted yesterday that “public Matrix servers will also have to uphold age verification laws, as misguided as they might be.” This is true for them. They’re based in the UK and subject to the Online Safety Act. But it is not true as a general statement, and it’s not true for us.…
UNREDACTED, a year in review (2025)
A message from our founder: 2024 felt as if things were moving at a very fast pace, with many things possible in 2025. That feeling was true, and 2025 has been our most successful year to date. We deployed a lot of new hardware, new services, and improved our existing infrastructure drastically. We built Unredacted…
New rules for our chat services, and our efforts to moderate them
Over the many years that we’ve operated our free and public federated chat services, XMPP.is and the Unredacted Matrix server, we’ve quickly and effectively responded to abuse reports and made great strides in clamping down on the blatant abuse of our services. This hasn’t come without a cost, as we’ve spent countless hours banning thousands…
Unredacted Labs, experiments for anti-censorship & privacy-focused infrastructure
Censorship is on the rise, and has been for a while. Censors are working hard every day to restrict access to crucial information that challenges their authoritarian regimes across the world. It’s important that we continue work to counter their efforts, and develop new and innovative ways to build out anti-censorship infrastructure which helps people…
UNREDACTED, a year in review (2024)
A message from our founder: 2024 has been a great year for us at Unredacted, growing in many ways that we didn’t even imagine were so quickly possible. We set out to explore whether becoming a 501(c)(3) non-profit was feasible. We ended up putting in the research and work to do it, and we formally…
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,…
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,…
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…