Privacy

PanicKit: making your whole phone respond to a panic button

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 …

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 …

Experimental app to improve privacy in location sharing

January 29, 2015

As part of the T2 Panic effort, I’ve recently been diving deep into the issues of sharing location. It is unfortunately looking really bad, with many …

Sharing your location privately

January 23, 2015

Facebook location sharing embeds the location in every single message, providing a detailed log to the recipient, Facebook, and anyone Facebook …

Automatic, private distribution of our test builds

June 6, 2014

One thing we are very lucky to have is a good community of people willing to test out unfinished builds of our software. That is a very valuable …

Keys, signatures, certificates, verifications, etc. What are all these for?

December 12, 2013

For the past two years, we have been thinking about how to make it easier for anyone to achieve private communications. One particular focus has been …

Getting keys into your keyring with Gnu Privacy Guard for Android

December 6, 2013

Now that you can have a full GnuPG on your Android device with Gnu Privacy Guard for Android, the next step is getting keys you need onto your device …

Turn Your Device Into an App Store

November 18, 2013

As we’ve touched upon in previous blog posts the Google Play model of application distribution has some disadvantages. Google does not make the Play …

Your own private dropbox with free software

November 12, 2013

There are lots of file storage and sharing software packages out there that make it easy for a group of people to share files. Dropbox is perhaps the …

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 …