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The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany announced today that the data retention implemented in German law is not compatible with the constitution. First, that means all mix operators that have already collected such data are going to delete them. And, second, no data is saved anymore in the future, at least until a law is made which is reconcilable with the German constitution.

The mix operators dotplex e.K. and German Privacy Foundation e.V. have open a new free cascade and increase the capacity of a running cascade. Because of the rebuild of two free cascade there was a little bit trouble with free services today.

Caused by a server outage in Dresden, the availability of the free services is currently limited.

The mix server of the GPF was closed by the ISP because of abuses. The cascade will be down for an indefinite time. The GPF contacts the ISP for fact-finding.

Update: The mix server is back and working.

The free services are currently malfunctioning. We are analyzing the problem. The premium services are thereby not affected.

Especially in the U.S., the Data Privacy Day became an important event. There are numerous activities in the whole country where companies like Intel, Google or Microsoft participate and want to make people more sensitive to privacy in the web. Also in Europe, this day is very meaningful especially in a time where privacy is at risk to become a product instead of being a right.

As the intention of the Data Privacy Day is very close to the philosophy of JonDonym we are proud that we could take part in an interview at PET-Portal. PET-Portal is a non-profit hungarian web site on topics in the scope of “Privacy Enhancing Technologies”. Rolf Wendolsky, lead developer at the JonDos company, speaks about JonDonym which is the JonDos' solution for more privacy while surfing the web.

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The new JonDoFox profile 2.3.0 provides the following new features:

• compatible with Firefox 3.6 (in order to activate CSLite, also JonDoFox may have to be reinstalled after a Firefox update)
• In order to strengthen the security of the profile, only the following extensions are incuded now: AdblockPlus, CSLite, DownloadHelper, JonDoFox, NoScript, ProfileSwitcher.
• included SafeCache's functionality into the JonDoFox extension
• the new referrer logic keeps the referer unchanged within the same domain/web site; this leads to a far better compatibility with many web pages
• excluded the warning regarding opening mailto-links
• added a special overlay which is shown to the user if she wants to
  download a Word or a .rtf file
• new preference, extensions.jondofox.alwaysUseJonDo, which,
  if set to true, ignores the proxy used in the last session and lets the
  browser start always with JonDo; default is "false"
• minor bugfixes

The future development aims to make JonDoFox a self-contained Firefox extension. Besides NoScript and DownloadHelper, the functionality of all remaining extensions will be replaced by our own implementation.

There is a new version of our extension available. It should get updated via the Autoupdate-function provided by Firefox and makes e.g. the old SafeCache extension obsolete.

Due to some maintenance work, some services may be unavailable at the moment.

A new version of JonDoFox has been released. All important changes are contained in the extension itself which you may update automatically over Firefox.

Changelog 2.2.5

• removed extension "sage"
• warn on opening external applications
• new accept header for better website compatibility
• some minor bug fixes