Orbot

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 …

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 …

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 …

Voice over Tor?

December 10, 2012

Voice calls over Tor are supposed to be impossible. It seems this may no longer be the case. Without being able to do voice over IP (VOIP) …

Sometimes the best solution is a library, not an app

August 27, 2012

Our general approach to software development starts with surveying existing solutions that are available and in use, to see if there is already enough …

Orbot Update: New Setup Wizard at Startup

July 29, 2010

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, …

Ultimate Droid and Orbot

April 11, 2010

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 …

Orbot main screen redesign

March 1, 2010

Here’s a few screenshots of the new “ACTIVATE ORBOT!” user interface. Just polishing up some of the features and doing a last few days of diligent …