Prototype

PanicKit 1.0: built-in panic button and full app wipes

June 4, 2019

Panic Kit is 1.0! After over three years of use, it is time to call this stable and ready for widespread use. Built-in panic button This round of work …

F-Droid Lubbock Report – What We Want to Know

April 17, 2017

F-Droid LBK Usability Study Report – What We Want to Know Prepared by Carrie Winfrey Preliminary Version – April 17, 2017 Introduction When planning …

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 …

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 …

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 …

First working test of IOCipher for Obj-C

January 26, 2015

Every so often, we revisit our core libraries in the process of improving our existing apps, and creating new ones. IOCipher has become a standard …

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 …

IOCipher lives! encrypted virtual file system for Android

May 17, 2012

Nathan and I just got the first complete test of IOCipher working in the IOCipherServer/SpotSync app. We created a filesystem sqlite.db file, then …

Mobile mesh in a real world test

May 2, 2012

Nathan, Mark, Lee, and I tried some OLSR mesh testing during the May Day protests and marches. We were able to get 4 devices to associate and mesh …

Adventures in Porting: GnuPG 2.1.x to Android!

March 15, 2012

PGP started with Phil Zimmerman’s Pretty Good Privacy, which is now turned into an open IETF standard known as OpenPGP. These days, the reference …