App Reviews

Orfox 1.2: An Overdue Update to Our Privacy-Focused Browser!

September 25, 2016

Primarily this release is the first in a long while after improving our ability to stay up-to-date with core Tor Browser development. In addition, as …

OpenArchive: Free & Secure Mobile Media Sharing #DWebSummit

June 7, 2016

I am excited to share another new “mini app” effort we have joined up with, as part of work we are doing to create simple, focused tools that solve a …

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 …

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, …

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 …

Don’t Get Burned, Anonymize Your Fire

November 16, 2011

Thanks to Jesse Vincent, aka @obra of the K-9 mail project, we can say that Orbot (Tor on Android) and Orweb (Privacy Browser) work just fine on the …

SECURED: T-Mobile myTouch 4G gets Guardian

November 9, 2010

One of the services we provide at the Guardian Project is taking any off the shelf Android phone and setting it up to be generally more secure, …

How To: Lockdown Your Mobile E-Mail

July 9, 2010

Update 2015-04-27: We now recommend OpenKeychain over APG, the app described in this blog post. The set up is drastically easier, so you probably …

Beem+Orbot: Mobile Instant Messaging over Tor

May 10, 2010

It is no secret that we are big fans of open-source here at Guardian. In fact, it is what we are made of. Guardian is not just a single app or just …

Ultimate Droid and Orbot

April 11, 2010

The InsecureSystem blog has a nice write-up on how to get Orbot running on your Droid: I’ve always been a supporter of net privacy and Tor in …