Is it true that JAP/JonDo has a backdoor or a surveillance interface?
No. Neither JAP, the predecessor of JonDo, nor JonDo itself contained ever such a function. If experts study the source code they can go and see for themselves of it. Only the server component of the system, i.e. a mix, where you are connecting to via JonDo, contains due to legal reasons the possibility to keep connections under surveillance. But this works just in case all mix operators of a cascade are forced to. That is why we recommend to choose always JonDonym services with two or three, as far as possible, international mixes and providers and no single ones, as the service “Dresden”. Single mixes similar to classical proxies or VPN-services are kept quite easily under surveillance.
