HowTo

Setting up your own app store with F-Droid

November 5, 2013

(This blog post as now been cooked into an updated HOWTO) The Google Play Store for Android is not available in all parts of the world, US law …

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 …

ToFU/PoP in your Android App! (a.k.a. extending Orlib to communicate over Tor)

September 20, 2012

In doing my research for InformaCam, I learned a couple of neat tricks for getting an app to communicate over Tor. Here’s a how-to for app developers …

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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 …

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 …

Announcing ObscuraCam v1 – Enhance Your Visual Privacy!

June 23, 2011

We’re very happy to announce the beta release of ObscuraCam for Android. This is the first release from the SecureSmartCam project, a partnership with …

Create an encrypted file system on Android with LUKS

February 2, 2011

LUKS is the standard for Linux hard disk encryption. By providing a standard on-disk-format, it not only facilitates compatibility among …

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 …

How To: Setup a Private VOIP Phone System for Android

May 26, 2010

MAY 2011: Learn more about our new efforts on the Open Secure Telephony Network at https://guardianproject.info/wiki/OSTN – we currently recommend …