The Only Way to Visit Strongbox on a Phone

 Posted on May 16, 2013  |  mark

The New Yorker magazine just launched Strongbox, a whistleblower submission system that’s hosted on a hidden website. There’s only one way to access the hidden site on a phone or tablet, and that’s with our Orweb app. Here’s a simple breakdown of how to do securely and anonymously blow the whistle, explained in an interactive tutorial: Visit guardianproject.info/howto/strongbox for an interactive tutorial on using Strongbox on your phone. The website exists as a hidden site on what is widely known as the darknet, since you are going there hidden or “in the dark. [Read More]
Android  darknet  howto  journalism  magazine  onion browser  orbot  orweb  phone  privacy  proxy  security  strongbox  tablet  the new yorker  tor  tutorial  wikileaks 

Freebird Flys High

 Posted on June 28, 2012  |  mark

Freebird: Rio group picture via Obscuracam for Android What happens when you gather coders with privacy and security activists from around the world? Freebird! We held a simultaneous event in NYC and Rio, a one-day barcamp aimed to empower users to be more informed and engaged around their use of mobile technology, while engaging with developers to promote interest in open-source tools, security and privacy. Freebird was a pre-event for RightsCon:Rio, which allowed us to continue and extend conversations and ideas into the larger context of information technologies and human rights. [Read More]
barcamp  brazil  freebird  FreeBird2012  freebirdcamp  hackathon  humanrights  nyu  privacy  security 

IOCipher lives! encrypted virtual file system for Android

 Posted on May 17, 2012  |  Hans-Christoph Steiner

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 mounted it and got all the files via HTTP. In the test suite, I have lots of operations all running fine and encrypting! The core idea here is a java.io API replacement that transparently writes to an encrypted store. So for the most part, just change your import statements from: [Read More]
Android  encryption  open source  prototype  psst  security 

Singing and Dancing for Encryption

 Posted on April 19, 2012  |  mark

If you see me dancing or signing with my phone in my hand, I may not just be having a great time, but also creating an encryption key. Part of the issue with security is that it can often be difficult to implement or an added step in what users want to be an easy and seamless process. What if we can make secure and private communications fun and easy? [Read More]
award  cryptocat  encryption  hackathon  informaCam  ostel  ostn  privacy  security  transparency  voip  wsjdata  zrtp 

Call My Email

 Posted on March 22, 2012  |  mark

What if you could call me directly through my email? No exchanging of phone numbers or searching for handles on Skype. Just plain and simple email. Now what if we can make that phone call as secure as it is easy. That’s the goal of what we’re doing here at Open Secure Telephony Network (OSTN). The internet is already structured to be able to do this. That’s why I can have all of my emails point to one email box if I want to. [Read More]
open source  ostn  security  telephony  zrtp 

Our new F-Droid App Repository (out of date!)

 Posted on March 15, 2012  |  n8fr8

Update: this blog post has been changed to reference our new FDroid repository at https://guardianproject.info/fdroid. If you are still using the old one originally described here which has the URL https://guardianproject.info/repo, you should switch to the new repo as soon as possible! For all of you out there looking for a safe way to find and download apps outside of the Play Store (aka Android Market) or random, sketchy third-party app stores and file sharing sites, then your wait is over: [Read More]
Android  F-Droid  fdroid  security