Zero gimmicks – Compute like it’s 1999 Zenoffice is a privacy focused appliance for MS Windows, Apple OSX, and Linux providing a single console for all your communications. Zenoffice gives you private encrypted communications without advertising, surveillance, motion graphics, or incessant prompts to install or purchase anything. Unlike all other services, with Zenoffice you hold the keys. Zenoffice features ALL communications go thru the virtual…
Private Email Servers Now Available
Zenfoil now offers fully private email servers for your custom email domains. Using a private email domain protects you from your current cloud service provider, Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc, from LEGALLY reading your email content for analysis, sharing with partners, and monetization. If you want privacy you need a private email server.
New VPN: Geonet now available
Zenfoil is now offering a second VPN with exit point in New York City. Should for any reason the Offramp not be functional, or should Zenfoil customers wish to have a point of presence in the USA, Geonet can be used.
Jabber Servers Available
Fully open source Jabber servers are now available for customer use. Jabber is a complete end-to-end encrypted and private messaging system comparable to WhatsApp or Signal, however does not leak metadata and is a fully private communications solution. Messages, voice, and video communications are all encrypted at point of origin and remains encrypted during data transmission and at rest when stored on the server.
Expansion of DNS infrastructure
In addition to the 3 Zenfoil encrypted DNS servers, located in Toronto, Chicago, and Atlanta, we have added dnscrypt-1 and dnscypt-2 from another Canadian privacy oriented service provider (https://dnscrypt.ca), located in Montreal. With these 5 servers, you can expect 100% reliability and noticeably quick response. Additional encrypted DNS servers in New York City and New Jersey, as well as Frankfurt, Germany, have been added to…
TOS Edge Cases
An “edge case” is an example of something that while unlikely, can definitely happen. We use the internet under all the terms of service of our providers, but rarely consider how this could become a liability. Here are some unlikely, yet possible cases to consider. Provider stores your data in another country and therefore your data is now subject to their laws. You may become…
What are Service Providers?
We use electronic devices and the internet all the time, but do not understand where the lines between all the different services are drawn. Here are several categories of service providers. Your Phone Company This is the communications network/service that your phone or computer connects to and allows you to make telephone calls and use the internet. Examples in Canada are Rogers, Bell Canada, Shaw,…
Before and After Zenoffice
What you currently have: Surveillance by all your service providers After Zenoffice: Private and secure communications and storage
What you agreed to
User Generated Content A new source of monetizable renewable raw material is called User Generated Content or UGC. This is an excerpt from YouTube’s TOS, same as Google, Apple, Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, etc. Any variations are small, the substance remains the same from provider to provider: … by submitting Content to YouTube, you hereby grant YouTube a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to…
Privacy Levels
Level 0: No VPN on unmodified commercial cell phone, tablet, or computer. By default, everything you do is captured, shared, and monetized, with no benefits back to you. You are literally giving away everything. Level 1: Offramp VPN on unmodified commercial cell phone, tablet, or computer. Using the Offramp VPN you will prevent your DNS lookups from leaking and stop any snooping by your service…