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!
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…
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!
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Instant messaging services such as Facebook Messanger, or AIM have many of the same problems as other corporate walled gardens. They force users to connect to a centralized service, and then can monitor your usage to further develop their algorithmic profiles about you, as well as track your movements in…
Thanks to our amazing volunteer translators our Quickstart Guide, which provides basic information for new users, is now available in English, Chinese, Spanish, Arabic, and Portuguese! We may add new ones in the future to cater to specific clients, but these five languages alone cover over 75% of internet users….
