Development

Distribution in Depth: Mirrors as a Source of Resiliency

December 7, 2020

There are many ways to get the apps and media, even when the Internet is expensive, slow, blocked, or even completely unavailable. Censorshop …

Managing offline maps with F-Droid and OsmAnd

November 28, 2020

When disaster strikes, our mobile devices can provide us with many tools to deal with a wide variety of problems. The internet is not available in …

Easy translation workflows and the risks of translating in the cloud

June 8, 2020

Crowdsourced translation has opened up software and websites to whole new languages, regions, and uses. Making translating easier has brought in more …

Free Software Tooling for Android Feature Extraction

May 6, 2020

As part of the Tracking the Trackers project, we are inspecting thousands of Android apps to see what kinds of tracking we can find. We are looking at …

"Features" for Finding Trackers

April 28, 2020

One key component of the Tracking the Trackers project is building a machine learning (ML) tool to aide humans to find tracking in Android apps. One …

Figuring Out Crowdsourced Translation of Websites

April 23, 2020

Crowdsourced translation platforms like Weblate, Transifex, Crowdin, etc. have proven to be a hugely productive way to actively translate apps and …

Tracking the Trackers: using machine learning to aid ethical decisions

January 16, 2020

F-Droid is a free software community app store that has been working since 2010 to make all forms of tracking and advertising visible to users. It has …

IOCipher 64-bit builds

October 7, 2019

IOCipher v0.5 includes fulil 64-bit support and works with the latest SQLCipher versions. This means that the minimum supported SDK version had to be …

Tor Project: Orfox Paved the Way for Tor Browser on Android

September 3, 2019

Last month, we tagged the final release of Orfox, an important milestone for us in our work on Tor. Today, we pushed this final build out to all the …

NetCipher update: global, SOCKS, and TLSv1.2

June 25, 2019

NetCipher has been relatively quiet in recent years, because it kept on working, doing it was doing. Now, we have had some recent discoveries about …