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<html newsdate="2014-12-16">
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<title>Protect your privacy - Help GnuPG hire a second developer!</title>
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<body class="press release">
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<h1>Protect your privacy - Help GnuPG hire a second developer!</h1>
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<p newsteaser="yes">
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GnuPG is the world's leading privacy tool, with an estimated
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base of more than four million active users world-wide, and a thousand
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new users each day. It guards emails, files, and programs from
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snooping and spying on Windows, Mac, and GNU/Linux. This crucial
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program needs your help to keep going in 2015 and beyond.
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</p>
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<p>
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Ongoing government spying revelations have shown how little of our
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information is really safe. GnuPG is one of the few tools that can
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offer real protection. Edward Snowden used it to encrypt his
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communications with journalists. All companies and individuals
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running Free Software systems use it to protect their software
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against manipulation - sometimes without even knowing about it.
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Credit card data and backups are routinely encrypted through
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GnuPG, and the program will be needed for many years in the future
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to restore that data.
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</p>
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<p>
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GnuPG this is free of charge for all those people around the
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world, but it costs money to develop and maintain. For more than
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a decade, g10<sup>code</sup> GmbH, the company owned and
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headed by GnuPG's principal author Werner Koch, has been bearing
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the majority of these costs. The company is seeking EUR 120,000 to
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carry on its work on GnuPG in 2015.
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</p>
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<p>
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With this money, the company will:
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</p>
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<ul>
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<li>hire a second developer to work on GnuPG</li>
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<li>maintain the GnuPG software and documentation</li>
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<li>put this vital bit of our privacy infrastructure on a more
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solid organisational footing, so that it will remain viable in
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the long term.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>
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There are no fancy fundraising videos or goodies. Every cent of
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your donation will directly support the future development of
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GnuPG. Donors will be listed on the GnuPG website and in the next
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GnuPG release, unless they choose to remain anonymous.
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</p>
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<p>
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You can directly donate to the GnuPG project through this
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page:</p>
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<blockquote>
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<a href="https://gnupg.org/donate/">https://gnupg.org/donate/</a>
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</p>
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</blockquote>
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<p>
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If you can benefit from a donation receipt by a Germany charity
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you may donate to the GnuPG account at the WAU Holland Stiftung:
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<blockquote>
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<p>
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<a href="https://www.wauland.de/en/donation.html#61"
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>https://www.wauland.de/en/donation.html#61</a>
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<p>
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Wau Holland Stiftung<br/>
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Commerzbank Kassel<br/>
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Königsplatz 32-34<br/>
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34117 Kassel / Germany<br/>
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IBAN: DE89 5204 0021 0277 2812 06<br/>
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BIC: COBADEFF520 or COBADEFFXXX<br/>
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Stichwort: GnuPG
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</p>
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<p>
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Bitcoin: 12LKeo24XCzgz6ASSxcUa8BvUfzkEyCpGq
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</p>
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</blockquote>
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<p>
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The Wau Holland Stiftung will use the money raised to pay for
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development work on GnuPG and Enigmail.
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</p>
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<p>
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In a blog post, Werner Koch has provided an overview of GnuPG's
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costs and revenues over the years:
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</p>
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<blockquote>
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<p>
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<a href="https://www.gnupg.org/blog/20141214-gnupg-and-g10.html"
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>https://www.gnupg.org/blog/20141214-gnupg-and-g10.html</a>
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</p>
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</blockquote>
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<p>
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Media contact:
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<ul>
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Werner Koch, primary GnuPG developer, g10<sup>code</sup>:<br/>
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Email: wk AT g10code DOT org<br/>
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Phone: +49-2104-173855
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</li>
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<li>
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Karsten Gerloff, President, Free Software Foundation Europe:<br/>
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Email: gerloff AT fsfe DOT org<br/>
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Phone: +49 176 9690 4298<br/>
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</li>
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<li>
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Bernd Fix, Wau Holland Stiftung:<br/>
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Email: bf AT wauland DOT de<br/>
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</li>
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</ul>
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<p>
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About Wau Holland Stiftung:
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<p>
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WHS is a foundation related to the Chaos Computer Club, that was
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launched by the father and close friends of the late "information
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philosopher" Wau Holland (a.k.a. Herwart Holland-Moritz) to
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promote and pursue his unique freethinking in relation to freedom
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of communication and informational self-determination.
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</p>
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</body>
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</sidebar>
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<tags>
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<tag>Privacy</tag>
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<tag>Encryption</tag>
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<tag>Funding</tag>
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</tags>
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