Encryptica Foundation | Free One Month VISP Account Giveaway
[Part I]<p>We are a vISP, originally from the Dark Net, opening up trial accounts on the Internet&#x2F;ClearNet to test the waters.<p>We a non-profit NGO (social enterprise?) that is still in the process of acquiring 503(c) status in the United States.<p>We are testing out a new quasi-anonymous network design based on OpenVPN and Tor (more connection methods to our access points will follow in the future, such as IKEv2 and SSTP).<p>Technical Details: Initially one connects to the Tor network via the Tor Browser Bundle, once the connection to the Tor network is established, the user instructs the OpenVPN client to connect to our OpenVPN server (using our configuration file), which is sitting behind a .onion Hidden Service; the traffic is then forced to exit through one of our Tor Exit Nodes instead of a possibly malicious Tor Exit Nodes that tracks users or performs MITM on HTTP traffic or simply tcpdump.exe&#x27;s your traffic for fun and profit. We provide DNS resolution through our service to avoid leaks and preserve privacy.<p>We do not know your IP address, you do not know our server&#x27;s IP address, and nobody can prove that activity exiting through our Tor Exit nodes is our users&#x27; activities and not a user on the Tor network not belonging to our vISP (to rephrase: The Tor Exit Nodes are run by us to save the user the trouble of avoiding malicious Exit Nodes, to increase anonymity and privacy they are also shared with the rest of the Tor network; a Tor user may exit through our exit nodes even though they do are not one of our users). Please note that while connected to our network, you will also be able to resolve .onion addresses.<p>We don&#x27;t keep logs, we are a decentralized and distributed team of netsec, cipherpunks, activists, journalists, privacy &#x2F; security &#x2F; encryption &#x2F; anonymity &#x2F; paranoid schizophrenic fanatics spread around the globe, nevertheless our &quot;Foundation&quot; is HQ in the USA as: 
a. We&#x27;re not required to keep logs by law (and we are not able to)
b. We&#x27;re &quot;protected&quot; by some of the best LE agencies in the world. When you incorporate abroad, these same agencies are in your threat model. In our case, their threat while present, is diminished.<p>Once we obtain non-profit status by the IRS your monthly donations ($29.95 {note: you are under no obligation to sign up for a paid account after the free month account expires}) will be tax deductible. We are also thinking of starting the &quot;Church of the Free Bits&quot; with a mission statement of protecting users&#x27; rights&#x27; on the Internet, keeping bits colorless, encouraging anonymous free speech and freedom of expression on the Internet, and enhancing the user&#x27;s Internet experience via the use of cryptography, encryption, mix-networks, True(tm) Net Neutrality and privacy enhancing technologies.<p>We used to not have a website, not even on the dark net (word of mouth), now we must apparently. We are sticking with the informal no website policy for now (or WordPress&#x27;ing it at some point). Don&#x27;t judge us, front-end is not our domain nor focus. We are not very Social. We should have a blog soon however.<p>Don&#x27;t confuse us with &quot;VPN providers&quot; or &quot;Residential proxies&quot;. We are a Virtual ISP, and while we may use some similar technologies, we are in the RiseUp &#x2F; Telecomix league, not your fly-by-night VPN&#x2F;VPS provider. Don&#x27;t confuse us with a solution you can roll yourself either; we have X users, as long as you stick to the Tor browser bundle rules you can remain anonymous. If you roll your own you&#x27;re the only one originating from that IP address.<p>10% of our monthly profits go to EFF, ACLU, The Pirate Party. The rest is our salaries and reinvestment in the Foundation. We are audited once a year technically (certified to not be keeping logs), are legally insured, and welcome volunteers.<p>We are still at the MVP stage and our setup reflects it. Our SLA is far from 99.999%, try 85%-90%. That said we are experimental as f*ck and we break things often and break things fast, yet aspire to be digital Bodhisattvas who do no evil.<p>If you have any feedback or comments, drop us a line: sysop@encryptica.org. We answer email (for now).<p>[Gentle Reminder: We&#x27;re giving away free accounts: email sysop@encryptica.org with subject line &quot;REGISTER HN&quot; and you will receive your credentials in the next 72 hours as well as the instructions. We are offering a one month give away to interested HN users to test out our network and iron out any remaining issues.]<p>PS. We provide perma-free accounts (aside from this offer) for .edu &#x2F; .ac.uk &#x2F; academia &#x2F; military personnel stationed abroad &#x2F; veterans, and Australians (no, really).<p>Ask away if you have any questions, though keep in mind our answers are polymorphic, we are still building our infrastructure, and our policies are still taking shape and form, according to user demand, local laws, and our own paranoia. Our service is not completely secure yet and may be hackable (it&#x27;s an MVP before we move to big iron), we only ask for an email address at the moment for authentication purposes, your password is automatically generated, nothing more.