Thank You!
The CryptoRights Foundation sincerely thanks the following companies for their generous in-kind charitable product donations! CRF operates on a small administrative budget with mostly volunteer assistance, so their donations of these products make us all safer and more productive.
MacOS X
Company: Apple Computer, Inc.
How we use it at CRF: We prefer operating systems that are user-friendly, which MacOS X certainly is, and also have free open source encryption and security sofware availble to run on them (we mainly use GnuPG; PGP Corp. won't donate its products). MacOS X, being UNIX-based, is solid, powerful and still friendly and there is a considerable amount of useful software freely downloadable. We use MacOS X on our office computers and also on a couple of servers. We also use Linux and OpenBSD for various technology prototypes and our new FamilySafe project is our first MacOSX-based development effort. Apple's employees have generously provided CRF with donated or reduced-price Macintosh software and hardware.
BBEdit
Company: Bare Bones Software
How we use it at CRF: BBEdit is, in the opinion of pretty much everyone at CRF, the greatest text editor ever developed for any operating system, period. CRF is very text-oriented because "text never dies" and it's easy to encrypt and sign text digitally. Our website is developed, and to some extent managed, using BBEdit. We are especially grateful to the fine folks at Bare Bones for their generous donation of a 10-user site license so that all of our core staff and a few volunteers can edit content with all of the sophisticated features BBEdit provides.
SubEthaEdit
Company: The Coding Monkeys
How we use it at CRF: SubEthaEdit is a very innovative collaborative text editing tool. We use SEE to share documents both on our internal office network and over the Internet. The Coding Monkeys generously gave us a 5-user license so that our core team can edit things like website content simultaneously from different locations, which is a very useful capability for any organization with multiple physical locations.
Interarchy
Company: Stairways Software
How we use it at CRF: Interarchy is a time-tested Internet file transfer utility with a friendly graphical user interface (GUI) for the Macintosh. It has developed into a virtual Swiss Army knife of network software. We use it for synchronizing remote directories, secure file transfer protocols and many other useful purposes. We're very grateful to Peter at Stairways for years of work on this excellent product and for his donation of the latest version to CRF.
E-Gold Payment System
Company: E-Gold, Ltd.
How we use it at CRF: E-Gold is a unique secure online payment system that uses cryptographic tokens to manage ownership of gold and other precious metals stored at a special site in secure vaults. If you'd like to support CRF's long-term research and development work to protect social justice organizations, you can make a charitable donation or pay your membership dues very easily and safely using your E-Gold account.
N.B.: technologies developed by CRF are all free and open source, and do not incorporate proprietary software products (for both licensing and security reasons).
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