Category: Services

  • FreeSocks is now open source

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    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

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    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…

  • New Tor bridge types for Operation Envoy

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    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…

  • Introducing FreeSocks, proxies that circumvent censorship

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    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…

  • What we’re doing in response to the jabber.ru MITM attack

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    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…

  • Operation Envoy: Defeating Censors

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    Operation background Accessing the uncensored Internet in some countries has never been so difficult. Internet censorship is rising across the world, and content filtering is becoming more difficult to circumvent as technology and censors evolve. Even in countries you wouldn’t expect. However the worst offenders are the ones you would typically suspect, China, Russia and…

  • What we’re doing in response to the invasion of Ukraine

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    The situation in Ukraine is unsettling, and requires the world to step in and help on every front. Whether you do your part and help with donations, use your cybersecurity skills or attending & staging protests, anything helps. In response to the invasion of Ukraine by the Russian military, we have expanded our operations on…

  • Unredacted, a new Tor relay operator

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    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…