Guardian Project Blog

Carrier Grade, Verizon and the NSA

June 12, 2013

Last week Glenn Greenwald at The Guardian broke the news that Verizon has been providing the NSA with metadata about all of the calls over a …

The Only Way to Visit Strongbox on a Phone

May 16, 2013

The New Yorker magazine just launched Strongbox, a whistleblower submission system that’s hosted on a hidden website. There’s only one way to access …

GnuPG for Android progress: we have an command line app!

May 9, 2013

This alpha release of our command-line developer tool brings GnuPG to Android for the first time! GNU Privacy Guard Command-Line (gpgcli) gives you …

Security Awareness Party

April 26, 2013

In the security world, there’s a pesky belief that a tool can either be secure or easy to use, but not both. Some experts also argue that training …

Gibberbot v11 is not just secure, its also simple, snappy and super fun!

March 8, 2013

Gibberbot v11 is now final as of RC3 release: https://github.com/guardianproject/Gibberbot/tree/0.0.11-RC3. From here, the only changes to v11 we will …

Lower Bounds of The Narrow Bands

February 22, 2013

Voice is becoming a standard feature of any messaging app on mobile phones, in various forms using many different protocols. There’s the old guard, …

IOCipher beta: easy encrypted file storage for your Android app

February 7, 2013

At long last, we are proud to announce the first beta release of IOCipher, an easy framework for providing virtual encrypted disks for Android apps. …

report on IOCipher beta dev sprint

January 31, 2013

We are just wrapping up an intensive dev sprint on IOCipher in order to get the first real beta release out, and it has been a wonderfully productive …

Mumble and the Bandwidth – Anonymous CB radio with Mumble and Tor

January 31, 2013

The journey towards anonymous and secure voice communication is a long one. There’s lots of roadblocks to get your voice from point A to point B over …

InformaCam wins Knight News Challenge

January 27, 2013

WITNESS and The Guardian Project, the mobile security and app development experts, have just been awarded a Knight News Challenge grant from the John …