Ohanae supports Reset The Net

On June 5, 2014, individuals and organizations around the world will rally to support Fight For Freedom’s “Reset the Net” initiative. This effort suggests that users adopt tools that provide end-to-end encryption as one mechanism to counter mass surveillance efforts by government agencies.

Government entities like the United States’ National Security Agency (NSA) cast a wide net in their surveillance efforts. As country and world citizens, we all benefit from the legitimate success of these agencies — when they counter criminal or terrorist elements that intend harm to us. However, it’s important to find the right tradeoff between privacy and protection — a challenging question that the framers of US Constitution wrestled with over 200 years ago when writing the Fourth Amendment. Fight for Freedom advocates end-to-end encryption as a mechanism to counter passive, widespread, un-targeted surveillance and preserve personal privacy, while allowing government agencies to continue the targeted surveillance of specific individuals or organizations that pose a threat to their citizens.

But, government agencies are not the only entities in the unprotected seas of the internet. Russian hacker Evgeniy Bogachev was identified Monday as the leader of a vast group of internet criminals that compromised hundreds of thousands of computers, leading to over $100 million in identified losses to date.

A recent United States federal lawsuit against a popular cloud and email provider asserted that email sent through the cloud provider’s servers had been scanned and indexed in order to provide targeted ads. Indeed, the privacy policies of all the major cloud providers usually contain language that allows the provider to “use” data uploaded to their services to generate derivative services.

The end-to-end encryption recommendations of the Fight for Freedom’s Reset the Net are important because they help individuals and companies ensure that their data is ONLY used for approved purposes. It helps us set a fair and reasonable bar for the tradeoff between privacy and legitimately beneficial services (in the case of government agencies and service providers). And it protects us without compromise for dangerous, criminal elements that inhabit the Internet in abundance.

Ohanae is proud to support the Reset the Net initiative with Ohanae's cloud privacy protection software. Our software provides end-to-end encryption for data at rest locally, during transmission to cloud storage, and at rest in the cloud. It prevents unauthorized use by ANYONE except the owner at all points. Ohanae also provides secure file sharing for similar protection when you need to collaborate with others, and secure password management to protect against damaging account compromises.

Ohanae software is free for the first device, and available on iOS, Android, Windows, and Mac OS. Through referral bonuses, up to five complimentary years of premium service may be easily earned. Please navigate to http://www.ohanae.com to learn more about Ohanae and get started today!