Our mission
AirVPN team will work at the best of its abilities to:
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- Deliver technical tools aimed at enhancing and exercising the fundamental Right to Privacy (Universal Declaration of Human Rights, art. 12; ECHR art. 8)
- Deliver a service capable of providing a strong anonymity layer in order to exercise the Right to Remain Anonymous (*), which has been widely recognized as a key to freedom of speech
- Preserve and respect Net Neutrality and end-to-end principle
- Oppose with technical tools any Net Neutrality and/or end-to-end principle violation in the most possibly transparent way
- Circumvent censorship and any other barrier to seek, receive and impart information and ideas without interference and regardless of frontiers (Universal Declaration of Human Rights, art. 19; ECHR art. 10)
- Support when possible a range of projects and NGOs whose aim is compatible with AirVPN mission statement
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(*) UN Special Rapporteur Frank La Rue, 2011 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/05/u-n-special-rapporteur-calls-upon-states-protect
(*) Supreme Court of the United States, 1995 https://www.eff.org/issues/anonymity
(*) Supreme Court of the United States, 1995 https://www.eff.org/issues/anonymity
Projects developed and funded by us
We provide this service for free! Do you need mirrors to aid your software downloads, or do you know services which would need our support? If a software meets our mission priorities feel free to propose and discuss about it in our forum.
Developing and funding
IP/DNS Detect - What is your IP, what is your DNS, what informations you send to websites.
Developing and funding
An online text encryption tool, based on AES cryptography and JavaScript.
Developing and funding
Projects helped or funded by us
Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis
We contribute to cover expenses to run 20 Tor exit relay nodes under control of John Ricketts / Quintex - Relay List
We contribute to cover expenses to run 20 Tor exit relay nodes under control of John Ricketts / Quintex - Relay List
Recurring since 11/2016
Funding Relay nodes (6000 €/year)
Mastodon is an online, self-hosted social media, and social networking service. It allows anyone to host their own server node in the network, and its various separately operated user bases are federated across many different sites (called "instances"). Mastodon is a part of the wider Fediverse, allowing its users to also interact with users on different open platforms that support the same protocol, such as PeerTube and Friendica.
Recurring since 08/2019
Platinum support (200 $/month)
Access Now defends and extends the digital rights of users at risk around the world. By combining innovative policy, user engagement, and direct technical support, we fight for open and secure communications for all.
Recurring since 05/2016
50 unlimited accesses
Apollo-NG is a mobile, self-sustainable, independent and highly-experimental Hackerspace using and developing Next-Generation technology, visiting places without a resident, local Hackerspace and offering other Hackers the opportunity to work together.
Recurring since 12/2013
2 unlimited accesses
PeerTube allows you to create your own video platform, in complete independence. Platforms can be connected to each other. PeerTube does not depend on any advertising and does not track users.
2023 Donation - 1000 €
Xnet - An activist project working and proposing advanced solutions in fields related to digital rights, freedom of expression, net neutrality, digital privacy, access to culture, knowledge and information.
2022 Donation - 15000 €
WikiLeaks is an international non-profit organisation that publishes news leaks and classified media provided by anonymous sources.
2019 Donation - 11000 $
2021 Donation - 20000 $
2021 Donation - 20000 $
eff.org - The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF champions user privacy, free expression, and innovation through impact litigation, policy analysis, grassroots activism, and technology development. We work to ensure that rights and freedoms are enhanced and protected as our use of technology grows.
Super Major Donor (2500 $; 2019)
Manning should be regarded as a hero. [...] doing what an honest, decent citizen should be doing: letting your population know what the government, the people who rule you are doing. They want to keep it secret of course.(Noam Chomsky)
She disclosed nearly 750,000 military and diplomatic documents to WikiLeaks revealing, amongst other things, war crimes.
2019 Donation - 1300 $
caitlinjohnstone.com - Catilin Johnstone defines herself as a "rogue journalist". Her journalistic work is entirely supported by her readers. Her articles are not copyrighted and she gives unconditional permissions to republish them or part of them free of charge.
2019 Donation - 600 €
www.torservers.net - An independent, global network of organizations that help the Tor network by running high bandwidth Tor relays.
Funding Exit nodes (10/2013-10/2014)
(6000 €)
(6000 €)
ooni.torproject.org - A free software, global observation network for detecting censorship, surveillance and traffic manipulation on the internet.
Sponsor (2015) (3640 €)
www.opennicproject.org - Are you looking for an alternative DNS provider that is open and democratic, are you concerned about censorship?
June 2014 - 1000 € (1294.62 $)
www.openssl.org - The OpenSSL Project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust, commercial-grade, full-featured, and Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols as well as a full-strength general purpose cryptography library.
July 2014 - 1000 € (1355 $)
www.openbsdfoundation.org - The OpenBSD Foundation is a Canadian not-for-profit corporation which exists to support OpenBSD and related projects such as OpenSSH, OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenSMTPD, and LibreSSL (the OpenBSD fork of OpenSSL).
April 2014 - 1000 € (1355 $)
www.riseup.net - Riseup provides online communication tools for people and groups working on liberatory social change. We are a project to create democratic alternatives and practice self-determination by controlling our own secure means of communications.
March 2014 - 1000 € (1355 $)
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