Guardian Project Blog

Ostel.co secure VoIP network partners with Open Hosting

December 3, 2013

Ostel.co began as a R&D effort sponsored by The Guardian Project. The question: Is a peer-to-peer secure voice and video call network possible to …

VoIP security architecture in brief

November 21, 2013

Voice over IP (VoIP) has been around for a long time. It’s ubiquitous in homes, data centers and carrier networks. Despite this ubiquity, security is …

A tag-team git workflow that incorporates auditing

November 21, 2013

Git is as wonderful as it is terrible, it is immensly flexible but also far from intuitive. So to make our lives easier, we try to use git as it was …

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 …

Issues when distributing software

October 31, 2013

There is currently a discussion underway on the Debian-security list about adding TLS and Tor functionality to the official repositories (repos) of …

ChatSecure v12 Provides Comprehensive Mobile Security and a Whole New Look

October 24, 2013

ChatSecure v12 Provides Comprehensive Mobile Security and a Whole New Look The Guardian Project’s award-winning open-source app “Gibberbot” for …

Open Office Hours Every Friday This Fall

October 16, 2013

Fri, Oct 18, 1:00 PM EDT – 3:00 PM Members of the Guardian Project will be hosting weekly public hangouts every Friday for the rest of year to answer …

Gibberbot’s “ChatSecure” MakeOver: Almost Done!

September 20, 2013

In a previous post with the mouthful of a title “Modernizing Expectations for the Nouveau Secure Mobile Messaging Movement”, I spoke about all of the …