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color="#85aa42" face="Arial,Helvetica,
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<div align="right"><b><font
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<p>We'd like to thank you for your support
in 2015 and wish you a very merry
festive season. To see when our office
is closed for the holidays, please <a
href="#opening">skip</a> to the end of
this message.</p>
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<h4
style="font-weight:200;margin-bottom:0;color:#85aa42;">2015
in short</h4>
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<p style="margin-top:6px;"><font size="2"
color="#666666" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif"><b>In the past year we:</b>
started growing our own veg in the
Development House garden · got a new
designer (<a
href="http://www.gn.apc.org/about/who-we-are">hello,
Sophie</a>!) · did battle with GCHQ ·
drank an unprecedented amount of coffee
(zing!) · handled 19,356 support emails
and hundreds of support calls </font><font
size="2" color="#666666" face="Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="2"
color="#666666" face="Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif">· we helped
take down 2,462 phishing pages</font>
· launched 12 <a
href="http://www.gn.apc.org/portfolio/webprojects">shiny
new websites</a> and 8 new virtual
servers<font face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif"> </font></font><font
size="2" color="#666666" face="Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif"><font
face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font
face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font
size="2" color="#666666"
face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif"><font size="2"
color="#666666" face="Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif"> </font>
· </font>applied over 300
critical security patches to keep
drupal websites safe</font></font><i><br>
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<h4
style="font-weight:200;margin-bottom:0;color:#85aa42;">Our
case against GCHQ</h4>
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<p style="margin-top:6px;"><font
face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Our
case against GCHQ's suspicionless </font><font
face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font
size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif"><font face="Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif">intrusion
and hacking</font></font>, brought
along with <a
href="www.privacyinternational.org/node/681">Privacy
International</a> and several
progressive service providers outside
the UK, continues. The main public
evidence was heard on 1-4 December at
the secretive Investigatory Powers
Tribunal, and is very relevant to
threatened new mass surveillance (and
mass hacking) <a
href="https://www.dontspyonus.org.uk/blog/2015/11/04/dont-spy-on-us-response-to-the-draft-investigatory-powers-bill/">powers</a>
currently before Parliament. For more
information, see our <a
href="https://www.gn.apc.org/node/9622">blog</a>,
follow <a
href="https://twitter.com/GreenNetISP">us
on Twitter</a>, or contact us in <a
href="mailto:info+p@gn.apc.org">the
usual way</a>. <br>
<br>
The case had a fair bit more
mainstream media attention and we were
really proud to have been nominated,
alongside Privacy International, for <a
href="http://www.ispa.org.uk/internet-hero-and-internet-villain-shortlists-dominated-by-surveillance/">ISPA's
internet heroes of the year award
2015</a>.</font></p>
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<h4
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face="Arial,Helvetica, sans-serif">Sepp
Blatter, our part in his downfall</font></h4>
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<p style="margin-top:6px;"><font
face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Our
old friend<font face="Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif">,</font>
investigative journalist and </font><font
size="2" color="#666666" face="Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif"><font
face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
dogged </font></font><font
face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">anti-corruption
sleuth <a
href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b06tkl9d/panorama-fifa-sepp-blatter-and-me">Andrew
Jennings</a>, has scored a huge
victory with the recent and continuing
swoops on FIFA bosses. His site was
targeted with a massive DDoS attack
that took out our servers (and many
others) in August 2013.</font></p>
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<h4
style="font-weight:200;margin-bottom:0;color:#85aa42;"><font
face="Arial,Helvetica, sans-serif"><font
face="Arial,Helvetica,
sans-serif"><em>We are Many</em>
and the "Stephen Fry effect"</font></font></h4>
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<p style="margin-top:6px;"><font
face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif"><font face="Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif">Congratulations
to <a
href="https://twitter.com/amiramirani">@amiramirani</a>
on the launch of <a
href="http://wearemany.com/">his
superb film</a> on the
anti-war rally of 2003. Our
hosting withstood a thunderclap
of hits when Fry, @rustyrockets
and other twitter big beasts
tweeted about his site.<br>
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News</font></font></font></h4>
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<p
style="margin-top:6px;"><font
face="Arial,
Helvetica,
sans-serif"><font
face="Arial,
Helvetica,
sans-serif">Li<font
face="Arial,
Helvetica,
sans-serif">z
recently atten<font
face="Arial,
Helvetica,
sans-serif">de</font>d
the Internet
Governance
Forum in
Brazil, where
a strong APC
presence
demanded that
civil
society's
voice was
heard amongst
the
governments,
corporations
and technical
bodies vying
to control the
internet.
Nadine Moawad
gave a <a
href="https://www.apc.org/en/news/keep-fighting-free-and-open-internet-if-not-we-are">moving
speech at the
closing
ceremony</a>
"Keep fighting
for a free and
open internet
- if not, we
are going to
lose it"<font
face="Arial,
Helvetica,
sans-serif">.</font>
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<font face="Arial, Helvetica,
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Helvetica, sans-serif"><font
face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif"><font size="4"
color="#85aa42"
face="Arial,Helvetica,
sans-serif"> </font>We
congratulate APC on their 25th
anniversary, which was
celebrated in Brazil and with <a
href="https://www.apc.org/es/apc25">collections of memories and <font
face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif">photos</font></a>
being gathered together<font
face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif">.</font><br>
<br>
The <a
href="https://www.giswatch.org/2015-sexual-rights-and-internet">2015
edition of GISWATCH</a>
presents stories from around the
world on how the politics of sex
and sexual rights activism takes
place online <br>
<br>
The 2015 Take Back the Tech!
campaign was all about
strengthening solidarity after
the vicious twitter hashtag
attack that took place in
October. Many inspiring stories
have been shared this year, you
can <a
href="https://www.takebackthetech.net/survivor-stories">read/watch/listen
to them on the global campaign
site</a><font face="Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif">.</font><br>
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the
corporates, we
offer our <a
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both for
individuals
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get a secure
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2016...</font></h4>
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<p style="margin-top:6px;">W<font
face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">e'll
carry on offering an array of
different online services to connect
you and your campaigns up, from <a
href="http://www.gn.apc.org/about/our-green-credentials">renewably
powered hosting</a> to broadband,
web design for big and little sites,
and the best spam filtering you can
get on your email account. <br>
<br>
Our plans for next year include
offering "superfast" broadband through
fibre to the cabinet, and launching
our shiny new website. </font><font
size="2" color="#666666" face="Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif"> Despite all
things retro being back in style, we
decided that our vintage corner of the
web could do with an update. After
all, we spend a lot of time designing
other not-for-profits' websites, so
could smarten up a bit... We hope
you'll like it!</font></p>
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<h4
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opening hours</h4>
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<p style="margin-top:6px;"><b>The GreenNet
office will be closed from midday on
24th December 2015 and will reopen
fully on Monday 4th January 2015.</b></p>
<p>As always, we will be monitoring our
servers throughout the festive period.
If you have an urgent query during this
time, please send an email to <a
href="mailto:support@gn.apc.org"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:support@gn.apc.org">support@gn.apc.org</a></a>
or leave a message on 020 7065 0942.
We'll do our best to respond as soon as
we can. </p>
<p>Meanwhile don't forget to switch off
your own devices (don't leave them on
standby) and have a lovely break!</p>
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<h4
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all our best wishes for a peaceful and
happy holiday,</h4>
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<p style="margin-top:6px;"> Andrew,
Cedric, Ed, Howard, Ian, Liz, Marek
and Sophie</p>
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