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An evening on freedom of expression, digital rights, hacktivism, journalists and surveillance organised by Free Press Unlimited and Greenhost.

On Tuesday December 1st at 20.30 hours, the documentary 'Silenced' by director James Spione will be screened at LAB111 in Amsterdam.

TOTEM

After more than a year of preparations, the TOTEM project finally kicked-off! TOTEM stands for 'Training using Online Tools for Effectiveness and Measurability'. Our new colleague Suzanne Wissenburg is coordinating the project. The TOTEM project's objective is to improve basic understanding of Internet security and related tools for human rights defenders, activists and journalists by creating an online classroom environment. The MOOC will improve a number of recurring issues with 'offline' security training's by enriching them with this tool. The TOTEM project is also aimed at a general...

The Smell of Data is a project by designer Leanne Wijnsma and film maker Froukje Tan in which they contribute to the fight for a safer and more secure internet by designing a smell. By adding smell to data they hope to make the Internet a more instinctive place. Greenhost supports there project and through our blog they will keep you and us up to date of their search.

Fairphone has a special place in our heart. We've been following this social enterprise improving the electronics supply chain for almost five years. When they launched their second phone last week, we were sitting in the front row. The virtual front row. From there we had an excellent view on the impact the presentation had.

The newest model was presented on June 16th. The new edition takes a big leap forward in comparison with the first model. The specifications are better, but most importantly, the Fairphone is one step closer to a fairer phone - one in which uses modular architecture for...

Greenhost is always looking for ways to make IT more sustainable. Greenhost joined the "Greening the Cloud" coalition a project to do research on the energy usage of servers.

In collaboration with three other hosting providers and students of the University of Amsterdam and Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences we will do a series of research projects to make cloud computing cleaner and more efficient. On June 10 2015 we had a meeting to discuss the ideas and experiences of all involved.

We are proud to present our improved and more sustainable storage platform made with SSD drives and Ceph. As of today hosting at Greenhost will be faster, more resilient and scalable without downtime. It is the best new digital home for your websites, apps and projects.

On 18 May 2015, Greenhost signed a joint open letter together with 64 civil society organizations expressing concerns about Internet.org and asking Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg to defend Net neutrality, Privacy, Security and other rights in relation to Internet.org. You can read the letter below:

Governments from more than 100 countries gather this week in The Hague at the Global Conference on Cyberspace to talk about a free and secure Internet. But a free and secure Internet can never exist as long as these governments continue their mass surveillance practices.

Imagine you're a hosting provider and you want to generate cryptographic keys. Lots of them. On virtual machines. Pretty soon you'll find out that computers are indeed very logical devices, which makes them particularly bad at coming up with random data. And guess what makes or breaks a cryptographic key? That's right: random data. In this post we will show you how we tackled this problem at Greenhost. To clarify how we are working and hopefully to also share some of our knowledge to the wider community."

In December 2014 several employees of Greenhost attended the yearly CCC hacker conference in Hamburg.

On stage both Sacha van Geffen and Jurre van Bergen gave a talk.

You can watch both here on our blog or download other formats from the CCC website.

Tactics in the Long War

by Sacha van Geffen

Now I Sprinkle Thee With Crypto Dust

by Jurre van Bergen