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 …
February 22, 2017
Most people get their Android apps from Google Play. It is usually the simplest and most secure option for them. But there are also many people who do …
January 26, 2017
The Guardian Project team spends a lot of time thinking about users. In our work we focus on easy-to-use applications for users in high-risk …
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 …
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 24, 2015
I recently received a very interesting phishing email directed at developers with apps in Google Play. One open question is, how targeted it was: did …