Guardian Project Blog

Keeping data private means it must be truly deletable!

August 23, 2013

There are lots of apps these days that promise to keep your data secure, and even some that promise to wipe away private information mere seconds or …

Orweb Security Advisory: Possible IP leakage with HTML5 video/audio

August 21, 2013

The Orweb browser app is vulnerable to leak the actual IP of the device it is on, if it loads a page with HTML5 video or audio tags on them, and those …

Orbot v12 now in beta

July 24, 2013

After much too long, we’ve got a new build of Orbot out, and it is… a stable beta! Nothing radically new here, just many small changes to continue to …

Jitsi, ostel.co and ISP censorship

July 22, 2013

Earlier last week n8fr8 suspected something changed on the ostel.co server, due to many users emailing support specifically about Jitsi connectivity …

Our Newest App: PixelKnot

July 18, 2013

Have you ever hidden in plain sight? Worn camouflage in the woods or an invisibility cloak in a narrow crooked alley? It’s really hard to do properly. …

Modernizing Expectations for the Nouveau Secure Mobile Messaging Movement

July 16, 2013

The tl;dr of this lengthy (tho entertaining and immensely important!) post is this: Stopping with “We support OTR” or “We support PGP” is not enough …

Building, Securing, and Anonymizing Android Apps

July 5, 2013

Calling all Android devs: Tuesday, July 9, 2013 - 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM <li> <div> Live on the web: <a title="Livestream …

A Weather Report On Security

June 14, 2013

How’s the weather outside? Sunny with a chance of IP blocking. We recently launched a new initiative we’re calling: The Weather Repo. The goal of the …

Carrier Grade, Verizon and the NSA

June 12, 2013

Last week Glenn Greenwald at The Guardian broke the news that Verizon has been providing the NSA with metadata about all of the calls over a …

The Only Way to Visit Strongbox on a Phone

May 16, 2013

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 …