Distribution

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 …

Use Onions/HTTPS for software updates

January 23, 2019

There is a new vulnerability in Debian’s apt that allows anything that can Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) your traffic to get root on your Debian/Ubuntu/etc …

Wind is a Mozilla & National Science Foundation Grand Prize Winner

September 26, 2018

On August 14th, members of the Guardian Project team traveled to Mountain View to compete in the final round of the Wireless Innovation for a …

Our “Wind” project is a Mozilla-NSF challenge finalist!

July 20, 2018

For the last few years, we’ve been working on the Wind network concept, as a nearby, local, off-grid companion, or alternative, to the Web. This year, …

Announcing new libraries: F-Droid Update Channels

May 31, 2017

In many places in the world, it is very common to find Android apps via a multitude of sources: third party app stores, Bluetooth transfers, swapping …

Build Your Own App Store: Android Media Distribution for Everyone

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 …

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 a trustworthy app store that respects privacy

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 …

Complete, reproducible app distribution achieved!

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 …

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 …