You may have heard that Google’s decided to stop censoring results from its Chinese search engine. After China attempted to access the email accounts of human rights activists, Google also decided to encrypt all Gmail traffic by default.
The team behind Mises.org is also contributing to the effort to keep the internet free and secure. Here is what we’re doing for online freedom:
- Free @mises.com email accounts and free Mises Community blogs. Mises.org offers free and anonymous email and blogs.
- SSL access to the site: if you access Mises.org via SSL (https://mises.org/), we’ll try to keep you on the secure site, preventing any third party from being able to intercept or spy on your activity.
- Open content – free to mirror: The vast majority of Mises.org content is provided without any copyright restrictions, so you are free to download and redistribute our work if it is not safe or possible for you to access Mises.org directly.
- Open Source code: Mises.org code is not only open-content, but open-source, so you can verify the privacy and security of our site for yourself, or even set up a complete copy of Mises.org yourself.
- No server logs: Mises.org does not keep server logs (aside from brief security audits and diagnostics). We don’t know who visits our website, so we can’t tell anyone else.
- Access Mises.org via Tor server: Mises.org runs Tor on all our web servers. This means that Tor will automatically make your exit node the Mises.org web server when you visit this site.
- Bandwidth donated to Tor: We donate our spare bandwidth (about 10 TB per month) to the Tor project to help people facing censorship and surveillance by running Tor relays on our servers.
- Last, but not least, advocating liberty is what Mises.org is all about!
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Congratulations. Is there no end to the greatness of the folks who manage this site?
fantastic!
Thank you kindly to Mr. Veksler, the volunteers and other professional workers for Mises.org.
Google stopped censoring because its intellectual property was attacked by Chinese government.
If Mises Inst is on Google’s side this might upset the IP Socialists here.
China is IP-free utopia is it not? I remember China being congratulated here at Mises org because of their IP socialism.
I love mises.org. Thank you many times over!
This is great.
Though this particular page seems to force the subdomain blog. and break the ssl.
Also I would like to share this nice gadget FoxyProxy (http://foxyproxy.mozdev.org/). It is a proxy addon for Firefox that let you set up which proxy to use for specific url wildcards. So you can make it use tor for all connections to *.mises.org for instance without having to have all your other traffic go thru tor.
@Kerem Tibuk
Ehm since when does abolishing IP give people the right to roam around freely in secure corporate networks?
This is an excellent job. I’m afraid it will make mises.org an early target for Obama’s seizure of the internet for “security purposes”.
There are search engines like scroogle.org and Startpage HTTPS which can encrypt your searches. Scroogle gives you Google results but scrubs the cookies.
Also, there are services like Cryptohippie, Trucrypt, and Hushmail.
Kerem Tibuk, actually, I think many on this site wouldn’t consider anyone to have violated Google’s property rights. Google found that some of its accounts had been hacked, and took measures to prevent this. Account hacking isn’t a property violation, because it was Google’s servers themselves which gave this access when the attacker remotely connected and sent various data packets. Fortunately it’s in Google’s power to avoid these attacks by using technological measures, rather than the state.
I highly recommend Gnu Privacy Guard, and if you use Gmail the Firefox plug-in FireGPG.
@Shay
What you just said is this: My lawn let everyone walk on it so that must mean they are allowed to.
What the computer does is completely irrelevant. No one have the right to use Google’s cables and spin there disks without there permission and they send a pretty clear message doing so by hacking is not approved of…
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Hakan is very much correct. Account hacking is trespassing, no different than picking the lock on someone’s front door.
Google’s problem was not only “hacking” but the target of the “hacking”. Google claimed it intellectual property rights were under attack. Before this it had no problem censoring according to the wishes of the Chinese government.
Also, “hacking as trespassing” doesn’t seem to fit with the common IP socialist arguments. Nothing tangible passes anywhere. Just data packets.
Somebody needs to argue and prove that hacking is the same as trespassing instead of assuming it.
Of course one could dismiss ethics all together and put the burden on the property owner (by saying he should have protected himself) but that wouldn’t take us nowhere.
@Kerem
The “hacking” of google’s accounts was a violations of terms of usage. The main defrauded party was not actually google themselves but their customers, who had their data compromised. It is illegitimate to access one’s server without the permission of the server owner. The servers are physical objects and an access alters the physical aspects of the server (contents of memory, whether it’s RAM, disk or the network adapter buffers). There is no IP involved. Your analogy is like saying that waking up someone with loud music or by aiming a flashlight at them is not illegal because there was no physical trespass. A more proper analogy to IP would be if google accused the alleged “hackers” of changing the contents of their own (“hackers’”) machines in a way google disproves. I use “hackers” instead of hackers because the correct term is actually crackers but laymen typically don’t understand the latter.
Kerem, hacking, spam, etc., can be types of trespass since it is an unconsented to use of property (computers etc.). See Spam, Spyware, Spiders and Trespass; Causation, Spam, and Worms; Spam as a Nuisance;
Spam and Knocking.
Thanks you for doing this, we too often forget that privacy is a right, and we need to fight for it.
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