Foundation for Applied Privacy @applied_privacy@mastodon.social

After our first visit by law enforcement due to our Tor exit infrastructure, we finally took the time to write and publish our first transparency report: https://applied-privacy.net/posts/first-transparency-report/

Our DNS privacy service's resolver hosts do not send ICMP packets in response to closed UDP ports (net.inet.udp.blackhole=1).

This disrupts the SAD DNS cache poisoning attack.
https://www.saddns.net/

We updated and simplified the privacy policy for our encrypted DNS resolver service (DNS-over-HTTPS and DNS-over-TLS).
https://applied-privacy.net/privacy-policy/

Thanks to https://deSEC.io our reverse DNS zone 100.70.109.in-addr.arpa is now also DNSSEC signed (in addition to our forward zones).

All our public DNS resolvers have been patched to address the NXNSAttack DNS vulnerability.

For DoH.applied-privacy.net, if you did not hardcode our IP in your config then no changes are required and you should not notice the migration, if you did hardcode our IPs, here are the new IPs valid from 2020-02-15:

93.177.65.183
2a03:4000:38:53c::2

(same IPs for DoT)

Our DoH and DoT DNS privacy services will migrate to a new hoster, OS and IP address on 2020-02-15.
The current IPs will continue to work until 2020-02-19.

This will bring you the latest unbound version with less bugs and crashes (that you probably didn't notice anyway).

We are happy to have a new sponsor onboard: https://mailbox.org
they provide us with email services.
Why we choose them:
- access to mailboxes via onion v3 services
- DANE
- DKIM
- transparency reports
and they even run a Tor exit relay

You can find their onion addresses on this page:
https://kb.mailbox.org/display/MBOKB/Den+Tor-Exit-Node+von+mailbox.org+verwenden

There will also be a Tor organizations meetup at #36c3, day 3 at 9pm:

https://events.ccc.de/congress/2019/wiki/index.php/Session:Tor_Organizations_Meetup

Again this year at #36c3 there will be a Tor relay operators meetup, day 1 at 9pm in lecture room 11. We'll be there:
https://events.ccc.de/congress/2019/wiki/index.php/Session:Tor_relay_operator_meetup

The slides from our yesterday's PrivacyWeek 2019 talk are online now:
https://applied-privacy.net/presentations/

We are excited to literally announce our own Autonomous System

https://appliedprivacy.net/posts/announcing-as208323/

Our general assembly takes place next week, come by and say hi, we have some great news to share!

when: 2019-09-06 6:00PM
where: Floragasse 7 (5. floor) 1040 Vienna

Please drop us an email if you plan to attend so we can do proper crowd control ( contact at appliedprivacy net )

Today we doubled the compute capacity that is available to our Tor exit server by installing a second CPU.

Thanks for this hardware donation!

Our https://chaos.social/@easterhegg 2019 talk about the DNS privacy protocols DoH and DoT will take place tonight. Drop by at 11pm in EI7.

https://conference.c3w.at/eh19/talk/SRAQGS/

We are happy to announce our second privacy enhancing service:

Today we are launching our DNS Privacy services supporting DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS

Encrypt all the things, DNS included!

https://appliedprivacy.net/posts/dns-privacy-services-launch/

#dnsprivacy

We are celebrating the new year with some new tor exit relays :)

A happy new year!

thanks to the person who sent us a 3 digit donation last week! 🤩
if you would like some stickers let us know.

At the end of this month we will publish our first donation stats.

The slides from our past PrivacyWeek talk:

https://appliedprivacy.net/files/PrivacyWeek2018_From_0_to_Exit.pdf

Last month our tor relays crossed the 1 petabyte / month traffic level for the first time!

We aim to help make the torproject network faster, more robust and more diverse with our contribution.