Attention Gibberfish Cloud platform users: There is a security flaw which affects Nextcloud servers using the default nginx configuration, including the one we bundle with our platform. We have released an update, tagged 20191102.0 which fixes this issue, including updating the php:fpm base docker image and nginx configuration file. We…
Voynich, Anyone?
In honor of the recent (and hotly contested) claim by Gerard Cheshire that he has successfully deciphered the Voynich manuscript, we decided to have a bit of fun. “Voynich” has been added as a new language option in the Gibberfish Management Portal which will render the interface in a font…
The Gift of Tor
Gibberfish’s Management Portal software relies on the Tor network, and since 2017 we have maintained a special type of relay server known as an Exit. Thanks to the donation of a $100 coupon to DigitalOcean from a Diaspora* user named Hank G, we are temporarily adding five more Exit relays to expand the network’s capacity for the next 60 days!
Security Vulnerability Notice
A security flaw in daygate (AKA the Gibberfish Management Portal) has been discovered which could allow an unauthenticated attacker to eavesdrop on websocket traffic, potentially leaking sensitive information such as passphrases. No encrypted user data or files were made accessible by this flaw. This issue has been fixed in the…
New Feature: Self-hosted VPN!
Our latest release now incorporates OpenVPN, which will allow you to securely tunnel all of your internet traffic through your private Gibberfish server, bypassing your school, office, or public WiFi networks and masking the origin of your traffic from the sites you visit. We’ve also integrated the authentication with Nextcloud, so you can manage your own VPN credentials directly from your Gibberfish user profile!
More Privacy, Greater Control
Gibberfish is a self-hosted cloud platform for people who care about privacy. In the past few weeks, we’ve put a lot of focus into making our software as easy as possible to deploy, so that anyone can run it on their own hardware, not just our hosted clients. Our platform…
Church Street Tabling Event (plus Laptop Giveaway)
This past Saturday we set up a table on the Church Street Marketplace in our hometown of Burlington, Vermont to meet the public, ask for donations, and to sign people up for our laptop give-away. Despite a little sunburn, and competing for attention with the Vermont Brewers Festival, we met…
Explaining Encryption for the Cloud
Encryption is the foundation of online privacy. It keeps our data and online activities safe from prying eyes. In this article we’ll give a brief overview of how encryption is used in the cloud, and what you can do on your own to make it more secure. By far, the…
Brave
The Brave browser takes a unique approach to ad-blocking. While it has built in protection against ads and trackers, you can transfer money to a Brave Payments account and at the end of each month that money is doled out to the websites you visit most often. It’s intended to…
July Laptop Giveaway!
This month, we are giving away a Dell laptop, pre-loaded with Ubuntu Linux and all of the necessary apps for secure web browsing, email, word processing, photo editing, and more — 100% free, privacy-respecting software with no ads and no trackers! We think you’ll find it all works just as…