March 13, 2017
In Debian stretch, the upcoming new release, it is now possible to build Android apps using only packages from Debian. This will provide all of the …
February 22, 2017
Many games, mapping, and other apps require a large amount of data to work. The APK file of an Android app is limited to 100MB in size, yet it is …
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 …
January 12, 2016
Our mobile devices do so many things for us, making it easy to communicate with people in all manners while giving us access to all sorts of …
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 …
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 …
September 21, 2015
We have been on a kick recently with making our build process support “reproducible builds” aka “deterministic builds”. What is this reproducible …
June 2, 2015
One core piece of our approach is thinking about very high risk situations, like Ai Weiwei or Edward Snowden, then making the tools for operating …
April 30, 2015
As part of Debian’s project in Google Summer of Code, I’ll be working with two students, Kai-Chung Yan and Komal Sukhani, and another mentor from the …
February 11, 2015
With F-Droid, we have been working towards getting a complete app distribution channel that is able to reproducibly build each Android app from …