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Seven internet service and communications providers from around the world filed a legal complaint today calling for an end to GCHQ's attacking and exploitation of network infrastructure in order to unlawfully gain access to potentially millions of people's private communications.

The complaint, filed by Riseup (US), GreenNet (UK), Greenhost (Netherlands), Mango (Zimbabwe), Jinbonet (Korea), May First/People Link (US), and the Chaos Computer Club (Germany), along with Privacy International, is the first time that internet and communication providers have taken collective action against GCHQ's targeting, attacking and exploitation of networks maintaining communications infrastructure.

At Greenhost we depend on Free Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS). Not only is it essential for our daily operations, using this type of software is one of our core values. That is why we made a dedicated home for all of our FLOSS projects at https://greenhost.io. This site houses our FLOSS projects and makes it possible to easily track updates in one place. We encourage you to have a look, use the tools we made and build upon our code.

Cryptography is often seen as scary and unusable by users, that is why we are exited that as of today we have an important and very fluffy new website on our servers. Cryptocat enables you to have a safer chat with everyone. Cryptocat combines a very friendly user interface with strong end-to-end encryption and fluffy feline friends. A great match to make using cryptography less hard and more fun.

Building a router with Linux is a viable alternative to commercial products in many applications. In this article, we explore the process of optimising Linux for the best packet-forwarding performance by exploiting symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) and Ethernet interfaces with multiple queues. We take advantage of the Linux kernel features known as Receive Packet Steering (RPS), Transmit Packet Steering (XPS), and IRQ affinity.

Today we noticed we that a lot of our incoming email was being marked as spam. Since this included many messages that were clearly not spam, we decided to investigate more deeply. We found that a third party was subverting the Spamhaus service using a routing-based attack.

On the day Freedom of Press-day 2011 attendees where asked about the importance of freedom of press and there part in this. See here one of the employees of Greenhost speaking:

Check the other video's from that day:

• Birgitta Jonsdottir
• Brenno de Winter- Geert Lovink
• Judith Sargentini
• Evgny Morozov

Today, in America, we celebrate the declaration of our independence from Britain. If you read the list of wrongs that led those Americans to "dissolve the bands" which tied them to their forebears, and contrast them to what's happening in Syria today, you can see that in tyranny too, human kind has made real progress. We distract ourselves with a million other things, but distraction doesn't change reality: thousands have died; thousands more are being held; tyranny still lives.

Bassel Khartabil by Joi Ito, on Flickr  

One of our own, Bassel Khartabil, is one of those thousands. Bassel is...

Lies are everywhere, not only in our daily interaction but also institutionalised in culture, religion and government. People tell 6 to 10 lies a day, but technology is unable to keep. Our devices will mostly tell the truth whether that is our intention or not.

The notion that all information should be available all the time (as on the internet) is actually a very new notion.