Any one can request a blog at network23.org. anyone. Ok, whether we will give it is another question. But it really is very rarely that we do not. Most often, if we do not grant a requested blog is because we have asked for just a bit more information about the future contents and there has been no answer.
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aktivix outgoing mail server settings
I have found that getting the aktivix outgoing server to work can be a challenge on ThunderBird. This is a run of the settings to look at.
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Privacy is not terrorism
On Tuesday 16th December 2014, a large police operation took place in the Spanish State. Fourteen houses and social centres were raided in Barcelona, Sabadell, Manresa and Madrid; books, leaflets and IT material were seized; and eleven people were arrested and sent to the Audiència Nacional, a special court handling issues of “national interest”, in Madrid. Continue reading
Welcome to Horde
Welcome to Horde.
Aktivix users have received emails with those words on the subject line, then this:
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Anonymous blogging
Some how, for some reason network23.org has ended up on wikipedia.
Yes such thing is offered by network23. An email address is necessary, for things like sending users their new passwords or generally keeping in touch. That’s all is needed, and a general feel of what the blog will be about as well – we may reject a request for hierarchical groupings like … hooligans. Continue reading
AktiviX welcome email in French
As well as a steady influx of requests for email addresses, lists etc., aktivix is now expanding geographically/linguistically: now in French
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So you want to volunteer with Aktivix?
There is a bank account to help out financially.
Wait, you want to become an aktivix volunteer/admin, too?
Let’s start with …
Tell us more about yourself, who you are, what your tech-activist
background is, why you want to help, why we should want you to help,
where you are, why you’re contacting us from a gmail address, etc.
Corporate email services
This is a collection of links to pages that say why it is not a good idea to use certain email providers
Gmail
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- http://www.threadwatch.org/node/3707
- http://www.threadwatch.org/node/2963
- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/03/google_mail_is_evil_privacy/
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3602745.stm
- http://www.epic.org/privacy/gmail/faq.html#1
- http://www.epic.org/privacy/gmail/faq.html#13
- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/10/google_microsoft_redux/
Yahoo!
Both
Hotmail
Hushmail
PROTONMAIL
ProtonMail Did It Again: Secretly Changed Transparency Report
byu/Dindu1 inProtonMail
Protonmail’s case on real-time surveillance article is not available in 2020
There is a copy on the webarchive There are, however, reports and comments on the article now deleted:
https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/protonmail-voluntarily-offers-assistance-for-real-time-surveillance.417157/ screenshot for good measure?
The hard labours of a list creator
Or the answers you want for the difficult questions.
Q: I need a list. How do I get authorised?
A: getting authorised involves a long and arduous process of induction into the ways of AktiviX, which only a select few survive. the perils are great, and the rewards are, erm, spending large amounts of time answering requests from members of the public. you’re welcome to apply to become One Of Us if you’d like, but in the short term, there’s an easier way:
[Just tell us what name you want for your list]
Laws and closures
This is little more than a collection of links, hopefully in chronological order, that can help get a rough idea of what is going on with Megauploads, SOPA, etc.
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