Anonymity

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 …

New research report on the challenges developers face

May 15, 2017

The Guardian Project has been working with the F-Droid community to make it a secure, streamlined, and verifiable app distribution channel for …

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 …

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 …

Experimental app to improve privacy in location sharing

January 29, 2015

As part of the T2 Panic effort, I’ve recently been diving deep into the issues of sharing location. It is unfortunately looking really bad, with many …

Sharing your location privately

January 23, 2015

Facebook location sharing embeds the location in every single message, providing a detailed log to the recipient, Facebook, and anyone Facebook …

Reducing metadata leakage from software updates

October 16, 2014

Update: now you can do this with Tor Onion Services Many software update systems use code signing to ensure that only the correct software is …

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 …

Issues when distributing software

October 31, 2013

There is currently a discussion underway on the Debian-security list about adding TLS and Tor functionality to the official repositories (repos) of …

Orbot v12 now in beta

July 24, 2013

After much too long, we’ve got a new build of Orbot out, and it is… a stable beta! Nothing radically new here, just many small changes to continue to …