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OpenArchive: Free & Secure Mobile Media Sharing #DWebSummit

June 7, 2016

I am excited to share another new “mini app” effort we have joined up with, as part of work we are doing to create simple, focused tools that solve a …

Building the most private app store

June 2, 2016

App stores can work well without any tracking at all Attackers are increasingly seeing app stores as a prime attack vector, whether it is aimed at the …

PanicKit: making your whole phone respond to a panic button

January 12, 2016

Our mobile devices do so many things for us, making it easy to communicate with people in all manners while giving us access to all sorts of …

Good translations are essential to usability

December 9, 2015

All too often, translation of an app are treated as an afterthought. It is not something that the app developers see, since they create the software …

First Reproducible Builds Summit

December 9, 2015

I was just in Athens for the “Reproducible Builds Summit“, an Aspiration-run meeting focused on the issues of getting all software builds to be …

CipherKit reproducible builds

September 21, 2015

We have been on a kick recently with making our build process support “reproducible builds” aka “deterministic builds”. What is this reproducible …

Orfox: Aspiring to bring Tor Browser to Android

June 30, 2015

Update 24 September, 2015: Orfox BETA is now on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=info.guardianproject.orfox In the summer of …

Building a trustworthy app store that respects privacy

June 2, 2015

One core piece of our approach is thinking about very high risk situations, like Ai Weiwei or Edward Snowden, then making the tools for operating …

Getting Android tools into Debian

April 30, 2015

As part of Debian’s project in Google Summer of Code, I’ll be working with two students, Kai-Chung Yan and Komal Sukhani, and another mentor from the …

Phishing for developers

February 24, 2015

I recently received a very interesting phishing email directed at developers with apps in Google Play. One open question is, how targeted it was: did …