Proxy Mobile Add-on 0.0.7 for Firefox on Android
Posted on March 4, 2011
| n8fr8
We’ve updated our Proxy Mobile add-on for Firefox on Android that allows user to configure their proxy settings. We first released this back in November of last year, and have done our best to keep up with all the various beta updates of the browser. There are no features in this release, just a few small changes to make sure everything is running smoothly out there.
To install the add-on, just search for “Proxy” from the add-on search menu within the Firefox settings screen.
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Addressing a “Privacy Challenge” with Guardian
Posted on March 2, 2011
| n8fr8
Organized by the ACLU, Tor Project, and PrivacyByDesign.ca, the “Develop for Privacy Challenge” is an interesting new software development challenge that was announced last month. Developers (teams or individuals) have until May 31st to come up with apps which address this goal:
Develop apps for smartphones or other mobile devices that educate users about mobile privacy and give them the ability to claim or demand greater control of their own personal information.
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SECURED: HTC Wildfires get Guardian
Posted on March 1, 2011
| Derek
As we’ve posted in the past, one of the services we provide at The Guardian Project is customizing off-the-shelf Android phones to be generally more secure, privacy minded and updated with a powerful suite of trusted apps. We’ve gotten our mitts on a number of devices over the last few months in this regard, including: myTouch 4G, Motorola Milestone (GSM Droid), HTC Desire GSM, TMobile G2, Samsung Galaxy S, Nook Color, and Viewsonic 10″ GTablet.
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A note on funding and our mention in Wired
Posted on February 23, 2011
| n8fr8
A message from Nathan Freitas, lead developer on Guardian, who has a life long bad habit of being misquoted or selectively quoted, a phenomenon he must now blame on himself, and not the reporters who interview him.
Some of you might have seen a story on Wired.com on which I am quoted, regarding the US State Department’s “Internet Freedom” agenda. In particular, I was asked to comment on the entrepreneurial angle they are taking.
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Interviewed CHOMP.FM 007 Podcast
Posted on February 19, 2011
| n8fr8
CHOMP.FM is a weekly broadcast on information freedom, internet privacy and cyberculture.
We were excited to be interviewed and including in the latest episode, CHOMP.FM 007. Many thanks to Nadim Kobeissi for featuring us in his super-interesting and relevant show.
You can listen to and download the mp3 directly.
Stickers!
Posted on February 17, 2011
| n8fr8
If you see us in person, make sure to ask for one. Otherwise, if you really, really want some, we can mail them to you. Just fill out our “contact” form with your address, and we’ll do our best to pop a few in this thing called an envelope and they should get there in a week(!).
Create an encrypted file system on Android with LUKS
Posted on February 2, 2011
| Derek
LUKS is the standard for Linux hard disk encryption. By providing a standard on-disk-format, it not only facilitates compatibility among distributions, but also provides secure management of multiple user passwords.
Building off the work from other great sources, the Guardian Project hack team decided to take a crack at porting LUKS to Android recently, with the goal of creating a proof of concept build process that can be easily adapted to future projects.
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Seeking Slightly Paranoid Android Developers for Hire and Internships
Posted on November 10, 2010
| n8fr8
The Guardian Project is kicking off a three month project focused on finishing up our secure chat app, codenamed Gibber but also known as “OtRChat”. We are looking for developers of all levels to join us in this work. We have already implemented the primary “Off the Record” messaging functionality, and achieved interoperability with desktop clients such as Pidgin and AdiumX. From here, there is work to be done on implementing some unique features, cleaning up the user experience, and ensuring that the implementation is as secure as possible, providing all the necessary features for verifying and managing secure identities and sessions.
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SECURED: T-Mobile myTouch 4G gets Guardian
Posted on November 9, 2010
| n8fr8
One of the services we provide at the Guardian Project is taking any off the shelf Android phone and setting it up to be generally more secure, privacy minded and updated with a powerful suite of trusted apps. Today we were excited to get our hands on a myTouch 4G, manufactured by HTC and sold by T-Mobile. Really beautiful piece of hardware, and once we got our hands on it, a powerhouse of encrypted, anonymous and circumventing communications.
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Proxy Settings Add-on for Firefox Mobile
Posted on November 8, 2010
| n8fr8
The latest beta of Firefox 4 on Android is proving to be very usable, stable and an increasingly viable alternative to the built-in webkit browser. However, it is unfortunately lacking the ability to manually configure proxy settings through any sort of standard user interface. This is a common problem for Android, which also lacks the ability to set browser or system wide proxy settings. This has caused real issues for us with getting Orbot (aka “Tor on Android”) to work for un-rooted Android devices, because for routing through Tor to work, you must be able to set the HTTP or SOCKS proxy settings.
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Open Video Conference: Panel and Hackday
Posted on September 30, 2010
| n8fr8
Nathan Freitas will be on a panel at the 2nd annual Open Video Conference in New York this Friday and Saturday. He will be on the panel entitled “Cameras Everywhere” led by our partners at Witness, on Saturday at 3pm.
Summary: Cameras Everywhere: Human Rights and Web Video – (2:45 PM – 3:30 PM)
Description: Once upon a time, video cameras were rare. Now they are ubiquitous—as are the opportunities to share, use, and re-use video.
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Orbot Release 1.0 in the Android Market!
Posted on September 23, 2010
| Derek
It’s here! We’d like to officially announce the release of Orbot to the Android Market. After going beta back in March, we’ve seriously re-doubled our efforts for this release. By releasing Orbot to the Android Market, we suspect that our user base will eventually evolve towards the more ‘every day’ Android user – so our goal has been to create an experience that is simple yet informative, straightforward yet powerful. As a step towards that goal, we’ve spent some time creating a new setup wizard at Orbot start-up that walks you through the basics of what Orbot does and does not do.
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Orbot Update: New Setup Wizard at Startup
Posted on July 29, 2010
| n8fr8
We’ve been working away at the 0.0.9 release of Orbot over the last few months, and have put a decent amount of effort into usability. Specifically, we hoped to better communicate to users what it means to run Tor on your Android phone. In addition, we wanted to clearly lay out how the various configuration options help to improve your mobile web anonymity and ability to circumvent web filters and tracking by your mobile service provider.
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Calling all Guardians – Alpha Testers Needed!
Posted on July 13, 2010
| Derek
Recently here at the Guardian Project we’ve been brainstorming & designing a new tool that we think will be core to enabling truly protected mobile communications . We think it will a big step in improving the user-friendliness of making your communications secure, anonymous and private , but we need your help to make it great.
While it may give some of us a certain satisfaction to manually cobble together a suite of secure applications that suites our needs, this is by no means a long-term, wider-market solution.
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How To: Lockdown Your Mobile E-Mail
Posted on July 9, 2010
| Derek
Update 2015-04-27: _We now recommend OpenKeychain over APG, the app described in this blog post. The set up is drastically easier, so you probably don’t even need this HOWTO anymore. Start by downloading K-9 and OpenKeychain, then go into OpenKeychain and start the config there._
Over the past few years it’s become increasingly popular to sound the call that ‘email is dead{#y8a0}.’ And while many complementary forms of synchronous and asynchronous communication – from IM to social networking – have evolved since email first came on the scene, it’s hard to see email suddenly disappearing from its role as the most important way organizations communicate.
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aPad / iRobot / Moons e7001 Teardown
Posted on June 5, 2010
| n8fr8
This is the aPad or iRobot Android 7″ tablet device from www.hiapad.com. I decided to tear mine apart, as the unit I received has a battery issue, and I hoped to see if I could find a bad solder point. In addition, I was curious to see just how hackable or extensible the hardware was. In the end, I was mostly surprised by how much of the thing is put together with tape.
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How To: Setup a Private VOIP Phone System for Android
Posted on May 26, 2010
| n8fr8
MAY 2011: Learn more about our new efforts on the Open Secure Telephony Network at https://guardianproject.info/wiki/OSTN – we currently recommend the CSipSimple Android app instead of SIPDroid, for secure voice calls.
Near the very top of Guardian’s open-source application suite wish list is something that might seem like a no-brainer for a secure mobile device: voice. When we take into account network performance and audio fidelity requirements, as well as the International nature of Guardian’s target users (everything from average citizens to multi-national journalists or humanitarian organizations), the prospect of a truly real-time secure VOIP solution starts to reveal itself as quite the challenge.
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Tor on a Tablet
Posted on May 25, 2010
| n8fr8
We recently acquired a Moons e-7001 “iRobot” tablet which runs Android 1.5. This device is also known as the “aPad”. It is a very basic iPad-clone, though honestly, it can’t really compare with the iPad in terms of quality of screen, build or general use. However, it does only cost $185, supports USB host mode, has a built-in camera, and it is running Android, an actual open-source operating system! It should also be pointed out that you can also now get the Archos 7 Android tablet, which is basically the same thing as this, from Amazon for $199.
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Beem+Orbot: Mobile Instant Messaging over Tor
Posted on May 10, 2010
| n8fr8
It is no secret that we are big fans of open-source here at Guardian. In fact, it is what we are made of. Guardian is not just a single app or just one phone, it is a vision for a more private and secure future for personal mobile telecommunications. As part of our work, we are constantly on the lookout other similar, like-minded projects that are developing open-source communications tools for the Android OS which we can make to work with our underlying security platform.
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Ultimate Droid and Orbot
Posted on April 11, 2010
| n8fr8
The InsecureSystem blog has a nice write-up on how to get Orbot running on your Droid:
I’ve always been a supporter of net privacy and Tor in particular, and a friend of mine got me interested in the guardian project, so I grabbed the beta version of Orbot just to try it out.. sweet, tor from my phone.
Unfortunately the Smoked Glass Rom I was using didn’t support the Iptables modules necessary for the transparent proxy method orbot used for tunnelling apps through privoxy/tor.
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