EPRCI

EPRCI is an information technology services organization, specializing in security and privacy solutions, run by New Hampshire liberty activists for other liberty activists. We provide webhosting, webdesign, privacy and computer security consulting, and other services. Set up originally to host the Manchester Free Press and Anarchy in Your Head, we’ve since expanded to hosting dozens of sites, mostly those of fellow liberty activists.

We are currently not accepting new customers, but will continue providing services to our existing customers for the foreseeable future.

How we serve our customers

EPRCI takes our webhosting customers’ privacy, security, and freedom very seriously.

We provide SSL-enabled (HTTPS) websites. Email sent and received through our mailserver is encrypted during transport, and we can help you set up PGP/GnuPG so your email is completely encrypted. We can disable IP address logging in our webserver for your site, or disable logging completely. You can pay us using bitcoin, cash, precious metals, and other forms of non-traceable currency.

Our censorship policy is simple: We don’t. And we won’t. We are free-speech absolutists and we will not compromise on this. We do not participate in “cancel culture.” If you don’t like something you see here, Control+W is easy to type.

Content that is conclusively illegal in the jurisdiction in which our business resides (New Hampshire, U.S.) will be removed, solely upon demand from a law enforcement agency or court of competent jurisdiction and only after consultation with our own attorneys. We are well-versed in First Amendment law and already full-time political and legal activists. We would be more than happy to fight any censorship demands all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and help create new case law.

We only comply with U.S. Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) demands if they are filed 100% in compliance with the legal requirements. We will not take down content in response to invalid, incomplete, or automated DMCA notices. In fact, most DMCA complaints are autogenerated by bots run by the copyright cartels or the rent-seeking industry that orbits them, rife with errors and omissions, and are therefore legally insufficient to effectuate an actual takedown demand. Frequently they are even outright fraudulent. We serve our customers, not the copyright cartels.

Other legal demands such as warrants, subpoenas, and NSLs will be met with the utmost scrutiny, too. Have you contacted us and you work for U.S. law enforcement? Come back with a warrant—or don’t come back at all.

We will not comply with legal demands from jurisdictions outside the United States, and if we even bother to respond, it will likely be with mockery and intentional undermining of whatever is demanded. As one example, we responded to a demand from Roskomnadzor (the Russian censorship agency) to remove an image on the EPRCI Image Library by adding to the image, for visitors from Russian addresses, an advertisement for a VPN service.

We can’t absolutely guarantee any of this—we try to do what we can to resist, but we have no control over what our upstream provider does, their upstream, and so on. The interconnected, hierarchical nature of the Internet makes this impossible. We can, however, point you to some projects that may provide you with even more privacy, security, and freedom than we can provide, if that’s what you really need.

History

EPRCI was founded in 2007 by a voluntaryist and Free State Project participant who left Massachusetts in June of that year in response to Massachusetts enacting a coercive health insurance law (“RomneyCare”) that applied to residents. He created his first website in 1996, and has worked with Unix and Linux systems since 1999. From 2000 to 2008, he worked as a web application developer and system administrator for a major Massachusetts university, specializing in security and privacy.

Our first server was named eleutheria.eprci.net, from the Greek word ἐλευθερία (eleuthería, IPA: [eleu̯tʰer'ia]) for liberty.

Our second server, brought online in June of 2011, was named azadi.eprci.net, from the Persian word آزادی (āzādī) for the same. This word is used in other Iranian Languages, including Luri, Pashto, Kurdish, and Baluchi, and is also used in languages such as Azeri, Hindi, Urdu, and Kashmiri.

In 2012, our mission expanded from secure webhosting, with a bit of security consulting on the side, to a much broader range of security and privacy services. In 2012, we also began accepting bitcoin.

In 2015, the entire website was migrated to HTTPS, using SSL certificates provided by Let’s Encrypt.

We stopped accepting new customers in 2016 but continue to provide services to our existing customers.

Our third server, brought online in November of 2017, was simply left with the default name assigned by the datacenter, rm-2003-10.eprci.net.

Our current and fourth server, brought online in February of 2020, is also currently using its default name until a better one is chosen, datarealm-01.eprci.net.