Free Software

DEfO - Developing ECH for OpenSSL (round two)

November 9, 2023

Encrypted ClientHello (ECH) plugs a privacy-hole in TLS, hiding previously visible details from network observers. The most important being the name …

F-Droid's Community-controlled Backup Ceremony

July 15, 2023

(Guest post from F-Droid, originally on f-droid.org) Seven core contributors and one board member met in Scotland, the birthplace of F-Droid, for the …

Improving website resilience with LibResilient and IPFS

June 15, 2023

We’re always looking for techniques to make services more resilient to all sorts of issues. That’s why we took special interest in …

Steps towards trusted VPNs

February 28, 2023

VPNs have become quite popular in recent years for a number of reasons, and more and more they are being touted as a privacy tool. The question is …

Decentralizing Distribution

February 5, 2022

Guardian Project has been awarded a grant from the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) to work on decentralizing veracity and …

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 …

The Promise and Hazards of COVID Contact Tracing Apps

April 9, 2020

There has been increasing interest in the possibilities of tracking people who are infected with Coronavirus using all of the various methods that …

Improving Crowdsourced Translation of Long Form Text

March 5, 2020

We are happy to announce the start of work on another step in improving crowdsourced localization, funded by the ISC Project. This is the second part …

Setting up your own app store with F-Droid

November 5, 2013

(This blog post as now been cooked into an updated HOWTO) The Google Play Store for Android is not available in all parts of the world, US law …