Indeed. They're even part of a pre-HOPE workshop at Columbia U.: "The Open Internet Tools Project has partnered with FreedomBox, InformSec and ISOC-NY to host a circumvention tools hackfest in NYC right before HOPE," and the group will have a presence at HOPE Number Nine: http://www.hopenumbernine.net/index.php?id=news&post=circumvention-tools-ha ckfest-in-nyc-before-hope On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 08:46:49PM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote:

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From: Poor Richard <poor.ricardo@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 20:07:33 -0700 (PDT) To: building-a-distributed-decentralized-internet@googlegroups.com Subject: FreedomBox - reports of its death greatly exaggerated? Reply-To: building-a-distributed-decentralized-internet@googlegroups.com

Wired: Good News For Spies and Dictators: bFreedomBoxb Is in Danger of an Early Death

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/06/freedombox/all/

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