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DuckDuckGo Donates $100,000 Among Four FOSS Projects

Posted by samzenpus on from the have-a-little-cash dept.

jones_supa writes As is the search engine company's annual habit, DuckDuckGo has chosen to advance four open source projects by donating to them. The primary focus this year was to support FOSS projects that bring privacy tools to anyone who needs them. $25,000 goes to The Freedom of the Press Foundation to support SecureDrop, which is a whistleblower submission used to securely accept documents from anonymous sources. The Electronic Frontier Foundation was given $25,000 to support PrivacyBadger, which is a browser add-on that stops advertisers and other third-party trackers from secretly tracking your surfing habits. Another $25,000 arrives at GPGTools to support GPG Suite, which is a software package for OS X that encrypts files or messages. Finally, $25,000 was donated to Riseup to support Tails, which is a live operating system that aims at preserving your privacy and anonymity.

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  1. Re:Android should be target by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If you think Microsoft or Apple are any better, both signed up to PRISM. Microsoft in 2007, Apple 2012, (Google in 2009, Yahoo 2008. Facebook 2009, Skype 2011 )

    These are companies that signed as 'Providers', these are "dates when PRISM collection began for each provider". No hacks, not warrants, because legal search warrants had to be dealt with before those dates. That just covers the list up to 2012, lots more since then.

    In 2012 the list of data was:
    Emails,
    Chat videos voice
    Videos
    Photos
    VoIP
    File Transfers
    Video Conferencing
    Notifications (logins etc)
    Online social network details
    *Bold* Special Requests

    Drop box planned to be added.
    With new smartphones the list will include location, the ability to switch on the microphone, camera, keep the phone, local wifi points, fingerprints.

    NSA get access, and then decides AFTER IT LOOKS what it wants to follow up, no individual warrant, no probable cause.

  2. Re:And you intentionally omit... by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 0, Interesting

    Maybe it's because openly sexist organizations shouldn't be promoted in polite society.

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    Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
  3. Re: And you intentionally omit... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting

    I perfectly agree. These projects are discriminatory to males and pretty much a waste of money trying to convince someone to code even if s/he doesn't want/care while providing nothing to who instead wants to learn just because of the way they piss.