Open Technology Fund @OpenTechFund

We advance internet freedom by supporting research, development, & implementation projects that fight censorship, increase privacy, & improve security online. opentech.fund Washington, DC Joined January 2012

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Open Technology Fund @OpenTechFund

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"Users have a false sense of security because a nation-state threat actor can see everything the users of these products are doing," @OpenTechFund-supported @bmixonbaca to @dwnews on privacy & security issues he found in widely-used commercial VPNs. ow.ly/NjZa50X0mFj

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“This is very frightening,” IntersecLab’s Marla Rivera explained the technical details of new @OpenTechFund-supported research into Geedge Networks' censorship and surveillance technologies to @WIRED.

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GreatFire.org @GreatFireChina

2 weeks ago

Eight providers of popular, commercial VPN applications for Androidin China could be owned by one person. All apps contain serious privacy and security issues that put users at risk of authoritarian surveillance. Three of these providers are linked to the PLA.

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ICYM: @OpenTechFund-supported research from @bmixonbaca sheds light on egregious transparency & security vulnerabilities of 16 commercial VPN apps linked to the CPP that put 700 million+ users at risk of authoritarian surveillance. opentech.fund/news/who-owns-…

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New @OpenTechFund-supported research from InterSecLab and partners uncovers how Chinese company Geedge Networks is exporting a comprehensive, turnkey surveillance and censorship system worldwide. Learn more: ow.ly/AX7g50WWMhY

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Open Technology Fund @OpenTechFund

3 weeks ago

.@OpenTechFund’s Security Lab partner @ROSecurity’s recent audit of @Tails_live found that the operating system is well designed from a security perspective. Learn more and access the full audit report: ow.ly/B0mG50WOoMs #DigitalPrivacy

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opencorporates @opencorporates

4 weeks ago

New research from the @OpenTechFund shows alarming security issues affecting major VPN providers with over 700 million users worldwide. Using @opencorporates' data, researchers were able to analyze ownership structures and trace their real controllers. eu1.hubs.ly/H0mSgfQ0

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AppCensorship @AppCensorship

4 weeks ago

Vital research from @bmixonbaca 👇Transparency of VPN providers matters. Users can also study where their VPN apps are available via applecensorship.com & googlecensorship.org For ex, unavailability in the EU, may indicate GDPR compliance issues.

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AmneziaVPN @AmneziaVPN

4 weeks ago

Have you seen the latest VPN research from @OpenTechFund? Turns out, around 20 popular services that present themselves as independent (and even as “competitors”) may actually belong to the same developers. Among them: Turbo VPN, Turbo VPN Lite, VPN Proxy Master, Snap VPN, VPN…

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Open Technology Fund @OpenTechFund

4 weeks ago

New research from @OpenTechFund’s ICFP Fellow @bmixonbaca includes analysis of 16 commercial VPN apps that are popular in authoritarian contexts. Learn about their suspicious operations and security issues: ow.ly/LqQH50WPIcI

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Open Technology Fund @OpenTechFund

2 months ago

.@OpenTechFund’s Security Lab partner @ROSecurity’s recent audit of @OpenObservatory found that their services and architecture are securely designed. Learn more and access the full audit report: ow.ly/kIM750WCUlt

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Open Technology Fund @OpenTechFund

3 months ago

.@ChinaFile’s Jessica Batke and @LauraEdelson2, authors of a new report that reshapes our understanding of Chinese censorship, spoke to the @washingtonpost’s @NorthropKatrina about how the “Locknet” works. ow.ly/zelH50Wq6vi

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Laura Edelson @LauraEdelson2

3 months ago

I talked to @NorthropKatrina for this piece on China's digital ID system. It's a great example of two key features of the Locknet: 1) different aspects of the censorship system reinforce each other, and 2) pushing the policeman into citizens heads. wapo.st/4kBkkEc

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Jonathan Cheng @JChengWSJ

3 months ago

“Scholarly works…held that the main goal of China’s internet censorship was to forestall protests…Leaders have a much larger ambition…to remake the…information landscape such that it alters what citizens know, and even what they think.” @ChinaFile locknet.chinafile.com/the-locknet/in…

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GreatFire.org @GreatFireChina

3 months ago

The Locknet: How China Controls Its Internet and Why It Matters -> very important and updated review of censorship mechanisms in China locknet.chinafile.com/the-locknet/in…

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Open Technology Fund @OpenTechFund

3 months ago

New @OpenTechFund-supported research reshapes our understanding of Chinese censorship. It's not simply a “firewall," it’s a “locknet”—a dynamic, mutil-layered system of total information control.