JonDoNews

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

JonDoFox-Extension 0.2.4

Georg Koppen — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:07:49 +0100

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.

Maintenance work

jondos — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:03:25 +0100

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

JonDoFox 2.2.5 (Extension: 0.2.3)

jondos — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:50:46 +0100

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