Android

εxodus ETIP: The Canonical Database for Tracking Trackers

December 11, 2020

There is a new story to add to the list of horrors of Surveillance Capitalism: the United States’ Military is purchasing tracking and location …

Distribution in Depth: Mirrors as a Source of Resiliency

December 7, 2020

There are many ways to get the apps and media, even when the Internet is expensive, slow, blocked, or even completely unavailable. Censorshop …

Free Software Tooling for Android Feature Extraction

May 6, 2020

As part of the Tracking the Trackers project, we are inspecting thousands of Android apps to see what kinds of tracking we can find. We are looking at …

"Features" for Finding Trackers

April 28, 2020

One key component of the Tracking the Trackers project is building a machine learning (ML) tool to aide humans to find tracking in Android apps. One …

Tracking the Trackers: using machine learning to aid ethical decisions

January 16, 2020

F-Droid is a free software community app store that has been working since 2010 to make all forms of tracking and advertising visible to users. It has …

NetCipher + Conscrypt for the best possible TLS

December 17, 2019

A new NetCipher library has recently been merged: netcipher-conscrypt. In the same vein as the other NetCipher libraries, netcipher-conscrypt wraps …

Trusted Update Channels vs. Scratching Your Itch

December 2, 2019

One of the great things about free software is that people can easily take a functional program or library and customize it as they see fit. Anyone …

IOCipher 64-bit builds

October 7, 2019

IOCipher v0.5 includes fulil 64-bit support and works with the latest SQLCipher versions. This means that the minimum supported SDK version had to be …

Tor Project: Orfox Paved the Way for Tor Browser on Android

September 3, 2019

Last month, we tagged the final release of Orfox, an important milestone for us in our work on Tor. Today, we pushed this final build out to all the …

NetCipher update: global, SOCKS, and TLSv1.2

June 25, 2019

NetCipher has been relatively quiet in recent years, because it kept on working, doing it was doing. Now, we have had some recent discoveries about …