Research

Recent news on Orweb flaws

June 30, 2014

August 2014: New browser development news here, including Orfox, our Firefox-based browser solution: …

Improving trust and flexibility in interactions between Android apps

January 21, 2014

Activity1 sending an Intent that either Activity2 or Activity3 can handle. Android provides a flexible system of messaging between apps in the form …

Four Ways InformaCam Powers Mobile Media Verification

January 6, 2014

_Note: A big discussion topic of 2013 was about how hard cryptography and security is for average people, journalists and others. With that in mind, …

Integrating Crypto Identities with Android

December 28, 2013

ver the past couple of years, Android has included a central database for managing information about people, it is known as the ContactsContract …

Keys, signatures, certificates, verifications, etc. What are all these for?

December 12, 2013

For the past two years, we have been thinking about how to make it easier for anyone to achieve private communications. One particular focus has been …

Turn Your Device Into an App Store

November 18, 2013

As we’ve touched upon in previous blog posts the Google Play model of application distribution has some disadvantages. Google does not make the Play …

Your own private dropbox with free software

November 12, 2013

There are lots of file storage and sharing software packages out there that make it easy for a group of people to share files. Dropbox is perhaps the …

Gibberbot’s “ChatSecure” MakeOver: Almost Done!

September 20, 2013

In a previous post with the mouthful of a title “Modernizing Expectations for the Nouveau Secure Mobile Messaging Movement”, I spoke about all of the …

Keeping data private means it must be truly deletable!

August 23, 2013

There are lots of apps these days that promise to keep your data secure, and even some that promise to wipe away private information mere seconds or …

Jitsi, ostel.co and ISP censorship

July 22, 2013

Earlier last week n8fr8 suspected something changed on the ostel.co server, due to many users emailing support specifically about Jitsi connectivity …