Guardian Project Blog

Orbot Data Tax (Updated!)

June 20, 2012

Update (6/26/12): I Found Orbot to have lower idle usage then previously recorded. The post now reflects the new statistics. The previous stats were …

Auditing Twitter With Orbot

June 13, 2012

Twitter’s new Android application provides a proxy option that supports Orbot. It is a great way to access Twitter, particularly if Twitter is …

<!--:en-->A Partnership for Open Secure Mobile Messaging between iOS and Android<!--:-->

June 8, 2012

**We believe in protocols, not products. We believe in partnerships, not proprietary fiefdoms. We believe in building a community of collaborators, …

<!--:en-->OSTN secure VoIP wizard now built into CSipSimple for Android<!--:-->

May 26, 2012

If you saw our last post about how to setup your own secure voice-over-IP server instance, then this news is for you. If you are an Android user …

<!--:en-->Build your own Open Secure Telephony Network, some assembly required<!--:-->

May 17, 2012

The Open Secure Telephony Network is a standard that defines how to configure a VoIP softswitch with the capability to have secure two-way VoIP …

IOCipher lives! encrypted virtual file system for Android

May 17, 2012

Nathan and I just got the first complete test of IOCipher working in the IOCipherServer/SpotSync app. We created a filesystem sqlite.db file, then …

<!--:en-->Bye, bye, BBM! Facebook Allows Verifiable Encrypted Mobile Messaging for Android and iOS; Mobile Revenue Threatened?<!--:-->

May 16, 2012

Yes, yes, we are trying to get in on all of the Facebook pre-IPO buzz. Fortunately, the headline is true – through Facebook’s support for …

Cross-Domain calling, or “toll-free long distance VoIP”

May 4, 2012

In a standard OSTN configuration, the Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) of the server running Freeswitch is a core dependency to operate the service. …

Orbot Your Twitter!

May 2, 2012

In some ways, Twitter is the perfect application to run over the Tor network. It works with small bits of data, it is asynchronous, works naturally in …

Mobile mesh in a real world test

May 2, 2012

Nathan, Mark, Lee, and I tried some OLSR mesh testing during the May Day protests and marches. We were able to get 4 devices to associate and mesh …