JonDoNews

Version 0.2.5 of the JonDoFox extension

jondos — Wed, 19 May 2010 10:26:23 +0200

Today, 19th of May, JonDos GmbH publishes the new version of JonDoFox.
The new version 0.2.5 of JonDoFox offers even more opportunities for
secure web surfing.

What is JonDoFox?
JonDoFox is both a profile and an extension for the popular Mozilla
Firefox web browser that protects the user's privacy while surfing the
web. As it is open-source software and free to use, it is an ideal
add-on for anonymization services like JonDonym and Tor, but may also be
used without anonymization tools.

What is new?
According to recent studies

Maintenance work at the mix Jupiter

jondos — Thu, 06 May 2010 11:55:03 +0200

The operator Delta-Protect reports that the mix Jupiter will today not be available due to maintenance work.

Technical collaborative wiki is online

jondos — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:08:22 +0200

From today, a wiki website for JonDonym is available. At this place, we provide help texts for advanced users, mix operators, developers and researcher.

Federal Constitutional Court stops German data retention law

Georg Koppen — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:40:41 +0100

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.

New cascade online

cane — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:24:20 +0100

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.

Limited availability of free services

jondos — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:38:36 +0100

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

dotplex2-GPF down

cane — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:15:42 +0100

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.

Free services malfunctioning

jondos — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:59:03 +0100

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

“Privacy Enhancing Technologies” Interview with PET-Portal

jondos — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:54:43 +0100

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.

JonDoFox 2.3.0

jondos — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:04:08 +0100

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