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InformaCam wins Knight News Challenge

January 27, 2013

WITNESS and The Guardian Project, the mobile security and app development experts, have just been awarded a Knight News Challenge grant from the John …

Voice over Tor?

December 10, 2012

Voice calls over Tor are supposed to be impossible. It seems this may no longer be the case. Without being able to do voice over IP (VOIP) …

From #HOPE9: Your Cell Phone Is Covered in Spiders! – Practical Android Security

July 19, 2012

Cooperq gave a great talk on Android security late Saturday night at the recent Hackers on Planet Earth Number 9 aka Hope9 gathering. You can find the …

Threats and Usability of Secure Voice

July 10, 2012

In my previous post I found that end-to-end encryption with OSTN is both effective and usable. There are two important things the user must be aware …

A Network Analysis of Encrypted Voice over OSTN

July 5, 2012

Introduction to OSTN The OSTN network stands for Open Source Telephony Network. It is a federated network standard for supporting Internet calling …

Freebird Flys High

June 28, 2012

Freebird: Rio group picture via Obscuracam for Android What happens when you gather coders with privacy and security activists from around the world? …

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 …