2021 seems to be the year that we all accepted the term “Web3” as the way to refer to the collective movements of decentralizing infrastructure and empowering users to be in control. It means the next generation of the Internet and beyond, which includes the tokenization of things for digital
On February 22nd, Least Authority’s CEO and Managing Director Liz Steininger spoke about Zero Knowledge Access Passes [ZKAPs] at Hello Decentralization, a free community event where members meet and discuss decentralized technologies from a technical perspective. The full talk can be viewed above and slides can be found here. The
Keep your data private in our cloud. PrivateStorage is a new secure storage product that will become available in the third quarter of 2021. As firm believers in protection of our customers’ privacy, we will offer a private, secure and end-to-end encrypted solution that aims to minimize the collection of
Least Authority is launching the HRO Cloud to offer a secure file storage system to human rights organizations that cannot or do not want to host and maintain their own storage servers. Digital files—such as photographs, recordings, written accounts, planning documents, and databases—are invaluable resources to the work of human
This summer, Least Authority has been wrapping up our project funded by the Open Technology Fund (OTF) to make Tahoe-LAFS a more usable tool for human rights organizations. (Read about the background on this project in our earlier post.) While secure file storage is a necessity for most everyone, human
Least Authority is committed to supporting privacy as a fundamental human right and to actively participate in making privacy-focused open-source tools available for everyone. In the case of human rights defenders, protecting their sensitive files—including reports, photos, videos, and other documentation—is a necessity, and at times, a matter of the
This post was updated to reflect that the partnership with PIA has ended. PrivateStorage is a joint venture product developed and maintained by Least Authority and Private Internet Access. As firm believers in protection of our customers’ privacy, we joined efforts to offer a private, secure and end-to-end encrypted solution to
We’re excited to announce that we have rolled out Gridsync 0.4.0 — the latest version of our graphical user interface for Tahoe-LAFS/S4. This release contains a number of new features, improvements, and bug-fixes and is a recommended upgrade for all customers of our Simple Secure Storage Service (S4). Among the latest changes include: