Research

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

HOWTO: get all your Debian packages via Tor Onion Services

July 31, 2016

Following up on some privacy leaks that we looked into a while back, there are now official Debian Tor Onion Services for getting software packages …

How to Migrate Your Android App’s Signing Key

December 29, 2015

It is time to update to a stronger signing key for your Android app! The old default RSA 1024-bit key is weak and officially deprecated. What? The …

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 …

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 …