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Riseup
Riseup is a volunteer-run collective providing secure email account, email list, VPN, online chat, and other online services; the organization was launched by activists in Seattle in 1999.
As of 2013, they feature 6 million subscribers spread across 14,000 lists.
In January 2015 the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) criticized the arrests of anarchists in Spain which were reported to have been partially attributed to the 'extreme security measures' of using Riseup.
Products
Riseup provides products to facilitate secure communications, including use of strong encryption, anonmyizing services, and minimal data retention, aimed at individuals and non-profit and activist groups. Riseup's two most popular features are secure email and mailing list management services.
The email service is available through IMAP, POP3, and a web or shell interface. The web interface is a variant of Roundcube.
7.2 million users are subscribed to lists hosted on Riseup's network, as of November 2015.
Controversies
Mid November 2016 an unexplained stealth error appeared in their warrant canary page, and they failed to respond to requests to update the canary, leading some to believe the collective has become the target of a gag order denying them their right to comment publicly. On February 16, 2017, theRiseup collective revealed that their failure to update their canary was due to two sealed warrants from the FBI, which perforce made it impossible for them to legally update their canary. The two sealed warrants concerned a public contact of an International Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack extortion ring and an account using Ransomware to extort people financially. The decision to release user information has been widely criticized in the hacker community. Their canary has since been updated.
