Station AB

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Station AB
legal form Aktiebolag (AB)
ISIN SE0010442418
founding 1994
Seat Tunnelgatan 2, Stockholm 111 37, Sweden
management Jon Karlung, CEO ( Verkställande direktör )
Number of employees 117
sales 188 million SEK
Branch Internet service provider
Website www.bahnhof.se
www.bahnhof.net

Bahnhof AB is a Swedish Internet Service Provider (ISP). The company was founded in 1994 by writer and blogger Oscar Swartz as Sweden's first independent ISP and is now one of the largest ISPs in Sweden. The company's headquarters are in Science City Kista , a district in the north-west of Stockholm. Oscar Swartz left Bahnhof in 2004 after internal differences. The company has been listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange since the end of 2007. It is currently headed by Jon Karlung ( Verkställande direktör , CEO ).

"Pionen White Mountains" data center

The station's largest data center is the “Pionen White Mountains” data center , which is located in the former civil protection bunker “Pionen” (built in the 1970s for the Swedish government), under 30 meters of rock below the “Vita bergen” (White Mountains ) ” Is located in Stockholm's inner city district Södermalm . This bunker was adapted for use as a data center from 2006–2008 under the direction of Albert France-Lanord Architects .

Self-image, political actor

For years, Bahnhof has been a political pioneer in the fight for personal protection and freedoms on the Internet, far beyond Sweden's borders: Bahnhof sees itself as a "free speech provider", campaigns against state surveillance of electronic media, and undermines the Swedish anti-file sharing system. Laws by destroying the IP addresses of its customers and intending to override data retention (as soon as law) via VPN.

In March 2005, the Swedish police confiscated four servers in a company building by the train station in the hope of finding copyrighted material on them. Bahnhof claimed that these servers, which were set up in a network lab area near the station's own server park, were not company property, but the private property of employees, and could ultimately prove that on behalf of Svenska Antipiratbyrån, the Swedish organization In order to combat copyright infringement which had caused this police operation, material testifying to copyright infringement had been smuggled onto these servers.

At the beginning of December 2010 it became known that the whistleblower internet platform WikiLeaks had also stored its data in the station's "Pionen White Mountains" data center after Amazon discontinued the hosting of the WikiLeaks server. Bahnhof emphasizes that it has isolated the two WikiLeaks servers so that other customers cannot be affected in the event of an attack, and that WikiLeaks treats it “like any other customer”.

At the end of January 2011, Bahnhof announced that it would route all its data traffic via VPN in the future in order to make the suspicious-free data retention of its customers' traffic data, planned by the Swedish Ministry of Justice , impossible (following an EU directive ) . Other ISPs want to follow suit.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b company homepage , accessed on August 22, 2013 (Swedish).
  2. ^ Station AB. Company snapshot. Wright Investors' Service, corporateinformation.com, accessed June 25, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Profit and Loss Account (Resulträkning ) 2009. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: Årsredovisning för räkenskapsåret (Annual Report) 2009. Bahnhof AB, April 14, 2010, p. 6 , archived from the original on November 22, 2010 ; Retrieved February 1, 2011 (Swedish).
  4. ^ A b Oscar Swartz: Biography Oscar Swartz - a background. In: Oscar Swartz Texplorer blog. Retrieved February 1, 2011 .
  5. ^ Bahnhof AB - About us. (No longer available online.) In: bahnhof.net. Bahnhof AB, archived from the original on February 14, 2011 ; accessed on February 6, 2011 .
  6. ↑ The world's most super-designed data center - fit for a James Bond villain. In: Royal Pingdom blog. Pingdom AB, November 14, 2008, accessed February 1, 2011 .
  7. ↑ Administrative report (Förvaltningsberättelse) 2007. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: Årsredovisning för räkenskapsåret (Annual Report) 2007. Bahnhof AB, May 5, 2008, archived from the original on December 6, 2010 ; Retrieved February 1, 2011 (Swedish).
  8. ↑ Pionen station. There is quite possibly nothing cooler than this. In: Rixstep Industry Watch. Rixstep, April 17, 2009, accessed February 1, 2011 (English, with YouTube video).
  9. ^ E. Pichler: Pionen White Mountains. In: Architecture and construction blog. May 25, 2010; Archived from the original on May 31, 2010 ; Retrieved February 1, 2011 .
  10. ↑ Merlin Münch: Do as the Swedes do? Internet policy and regulation in Sweden - a snapshot . In: Internet Policy Review . tape 2 , no. 2 , 2013, ISSN  2197-6775 , doi : 10.14763 / 2013.2.127 ( policyreview.info - FRA = Försvarets radioanstalt ).
  11. ^ ISP sabotages file sharing law. Broadband operator Bahnhof is continuing to destroy the IP address details of its customers in an open and fully legal bid to undermine Sweden's new anti-file sharing laws. In: The Local - Sweden's news in English. The Local Europe, April 16, 2009, accessed February 1, 2011 .
  12. ↑ a b Achim Sawall: Swedish ISPs oppose data retention. The ISP Bahnhof Internet wants to undo the planned data retention in Sweden with VPNs. Other providers and telecommunications companies want to join. In: golem.de IT news for professionals. Golem.de Klaß & Ihlenfeld Verlag, January 27, 2011, accessed on February 1, 2011 .
  13. ^ Svenska Antipiratbyrån. The Swedish film industry lobby group. Retrieved December 21, 2011 (Swedish).
  14. ^ Daniel Sokolov, Jürgen Kuri: Swedish "anti-pirates" caught illegally collecting data. In: heise online. Heise Zeitschriften Verlag, June 14, 2005, accessed on February 1, 2011 .
  15. ^ William J. Hennigan: WikiLeaks' new home is in a former bomb shelter. In: Los Angeles Times - Technology. Los Angeles Times, December 2, 2010, accessed February 1, 2011 .
  16. ^ Bahnhof AB - Common questions about Wikileaks. (No longer available online.) In: bahnhof.net. Bahnhof AB, December 8, 2010, archived from the original on February 22, 2011 ; accessed on February 1, 2011 (English).