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Exploring possibilities of Pluggable Transports on Android

April 16, 2019

Pluggable Transports (PT) give software developers the means to establishing reliable connections in DPI-filtered network scenarios. A variety of …

Use Onions/HTTPS for software updates

January 23, 2019

There is a new vulnerability in Debian’s apt that allows anything that can Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) your traffic to get root on your Debian/Ubuntu/etc …

Wind is a Mozilla & National Science Foundation Grand Prize Winner

September 26, 2018

On August 14th, members of the Guardian Project team traveled to Mountain View to compete in the final round of the Wireless Innovation for a …

Our “Wind” project is a Mozilla-NSF challenge finalist!

July 20, 2018

For the last few years, we’ve been working on the Wind network concept, as a nearby, local, off-grid companion, or alternative, to the Web. This year, …

Orbot: Over 20 Million Served, Ready for the Next Billion

May 16, 2018

We recently published the latest release of Orbot (16.0.2!), and as usual, we make it available via Google Play, as well F-Droid, and through direct …

Orbot v16: a whole new look, and easier to use!

January 5, 2018

Orbot: Tor for Android has a new release (tag and changelog), with a major update to the user experience and interface. This is the 16th major release …

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 …

Ostel.co is permanently offline

August 10, 2017

We are sad to announce that the Ostel service is officially discontinued and permanently offline. While Guardian Project had a hand in its conception …

Tracking usage without tracking people

June 8, 2017

One thing that has become very clear over the past years is that there is a lot of value in data about people. Of course, the most well known examples …

Announcing new libraries: F-Droid Update Channels

May 31, 2017

In many places in the world, it is very common to find Android apps via a multitude of sources: third party app stores, Bluetooth transfers, swapping …