Research

Modernizing Expectations for the Nouveau Secure Mobile Messaging Movement

July 16, 2013

The tl;dr of this lengthy (tho entertaining and immensely important!) post is this: Stopping with “We support OTR” or “We support PGP” is not enough …

A Weather Report On Security

June 14, 2013

How’s the weather outside? Sunny with a chance of IP blocking. We recently launched a new initiative we’re calling: The Weather Repo. The goal of the …

Carrier Grade, Verizon and the NSA

June 12, 2013

Last week Glenn Greenwald at The Guardian broke the news that Verizon has been providing the NSA with metadata about all of the calls over a …

Gibberbot v11 is not just secure, its also simple, snappy and super fun!

March 8, 2013

Gibberbot v11 is now final as of RC3 release: https://github.com/guardianproject/Gibberbot/tree/0.0.11-RC3. From here, the only changes to v11 we will …

Mumble and the Bandwidth – Anonymous CB radio with Mumble and Tor

January 31, 2013

The journey towards anonymous and secure voice communication is a long one. There’s lots of roadblocks to get your voice from point A to point B over …

Proposal for Secure Connection Notification on Android

November 15, 2012

A major problem of mobile applications being increasingly used over web-based applications, is that there is no standard established for notifying the …

ToFU/PoP in your Android App! (a.k.a. extending Orlib to communicate over Tor)

September 20, 2012

In doing my research for InformaCam, I learned a couple of neat tricks for getting an app to communicate over Tor. Here’s a how-to for app developers …

Call My Email

March 22, 2012

What if you could call me directly through my email? No exchanging of phone numbers or searching for handles on Skype. Just plain and simple email. …

VoIP Survey Results of NGOs, Human Rights Groups and Activists

March 7, 2012

In November 2011, 25 individuals were surveyed using an online form, representing typical end-users, global journalists, activist and human rights …