Privacy

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 …

Orbot v16: a whole new look, and easier to use!

January 5, 2018

Orbot: Tor for Android has a new release (tag and changelog), with a major update to the user experience and interface. This is the 16th major release …

Haven: Building the Most Secure Baby Monitor Ever?

December 22, 2017

About eight months ago, friends at the Freedom of the Press Foundation reached out to us, to see if we were interested in prototyping an idea they had …

No more “Root” features in Orbot… use Orfox & VPN instead!

October 27, 2017

Since I first announced the available of Orbot: Tor for Android about 8 years ago (wow!), myself and others have been working on various methods in …

Tracking usage without tracking people

June 8, 2017

One thing that has become very clear over the past years is that there is a lot of value in data about people. Of course, the most well known examples …

New research report on the challenges developers face

May 15, 2017

The Guardian Project has been working with the F-Droid community to make it a secure, streamlined, and verifiable app distribution channel for …

Imagining the challenges of developers in repressive environments

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 …

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 the most private app store

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 …