Guardian Project Blog

Open Office Hours Every Friday This Fall

October 16, 2013

Fri, Oct 18, 1:00 PM EDT – 3:00 PM Members of the Guardian Project will be hosting weekly public hangouts every Friday for the rest of year to answer …

Gibberbot’s “ChatSecure” MakeOver: Almost Done!

September 20, 2013

In a previous post with the mouthful of a title “Modernizing Expectations for the Nouveau Secure Mobile Messaging Movement”, I spoke about all of the …

Keeping data private means it must be truly deletable!

August 23, 2013

There are lots of apps these days that promise to keep your data secure, and even some that promise to wipe away private information mere seconds or …

Orweb Security Advisory: Possible IP leakage with HTML5 video/audio

August 21, 2013

The Orweb browser app is vulnerable to leak the actual IP of the device it is on, if it loads a page with HTML5 video or audio tags on them, and those …

Orbot v12 now in beta

July 24, 2013

After much too long, we’ve got a new build of Orbot out, and it is… a stable beta! Nothing radically new here, just many small changes to continue to …

Jitsi, ostel.co and ISP censorship

July 22, 2013

Earlier last week n8fr8 suspected something changed on the ostel.co server, due to many users emailing support specifically about Jitsi connectivity …

Our Newest App: PixelKnot

July 18, 2013

Have you ever hidden in plain sight? Worn camouflage in the woods or an invisibility cloak in a narrow crooked alley? It’s really hard to do properly. …

Modernizing Expectations for the Nouveau Secure Mobile Messaging Movement

July 16, 2013

The tl;dr of this lengthy (tho entertaining and immensely important!) post is this: Stopping with “We support OTR” or “We support PGP” is not enough …

Building, Securing, and Anonymizing Android Apps

July 5, 2013

Calling all Android devs: Tuesday, July 9, 2013 - 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM <li> <div> Live on the web: <a title="Livestream …

A Weather Report On Security

June 14, 2013

How’s the weather outside? Sunny with a chance of IP blocking. We recently launched a new initiative we’re calling: The Weather Repo. The goal of the …