Development

PanicKit 1.0: built-in panic button and full app wipes

June 4, 2019

Panic Kit is 1.0! After over three years of use, it is time to call this stable and ready for widespread use. Built-in panic button This round of work …

IOCipher is the antidote to “Man-in-the-Disk” attack

August 17, 2018

Recently, at DEFCON 2018, researchers at Check Point announced a new kind of attack made possible by the way many Android apps are implemented. In …

Haven: Building the Most Secure Baby Monitor Ever?

December 22, 2017

About eight months ago, friends at the Freedom of the Press Foundation reached out to us, to see if we were interested in prototyping an idea they had …

No more “Root” features in Orbot… use Orfox & VPN instead!

October 27, 2017

Since I first announced the available of Orbot: Tor for Android about 8 years ago (wow!), myself and others have been working on various methods in …

Repomaker Usability Trainers Worldwide, June 2017

June 29, 2017

Repomaker Usability, Trainers Worldwide Study Prepared by Carrie Winfrey and Tiffany Robertson, Okthanks, in partnership with F-Droid and Guardian …

fdroidserver UX Testing Report

June 1, 2017

We ran user tests of fdroidserver, the tools for developers to create and manage F-Droid repositories of apps and media. This test was set up to …

F-Droid User Testing, Round 2

May 1, 2017

# by Hailey Still and Carrie Winfrey **** Here we outline the User Testing process and plan for the F-Droid app store for Android. The key aims of …

F-Droid Lubbock Report – What We Want to Know

April 17, 2017

F-Droid LBK Usability Study Report – What We Want to Know Prepared by Carrie Winfrey Preliminary Version – April 17, 2017 Introduction When planning …

Proofmode critiques and progress

March 30, 2017

Bruce Schneier was kind enough to post about our work on Proofmode to his blog. A decent set of comments ensued, which we have considered, measured …

Imagining the challenges of developers in repressive environments

January 26, 2017

The Guardian Project team spends a lot of time thinking about users. In our work we focus on easy-to-use applications for users in high-risk …