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Riseup.net, the non-profit collective which has been providing dissidents a way to encrypt their communications since 1999, without revealing your location or logging your IP address, is running out of money:

The news is not good We hate to be bad news birds, but we need to tell you that Riseup will run out of money next month. We had a number of unexpected hardware failures, lower-than-expected regular donations, and a record year of new Riseup users which puts more financial pressure on us than ever before. Sign up to our newsletter

Security news, advice, and tips. We need your help to keep things going this year, so we are starting a campaign to ask Riseup users to give us just one dollar! Can you give us a dollar? There are a lot of easy ways to do it: https://riseup.net/donate

It seems that Riseup.net saw a boom in new users in the wake of the Edward Snowden revelations, but has not managed to match that growth with sufficient regular donations.

If Riseup.net shuts down, that also means the end for 150,000 email accounts and over 18,000 mailing lists that depend on the service for their privacy and security.

It would be sad to see Riseup.net close its doors. I hope people who value online liberty will support this noble cause.

(Yes, I already donated.)

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