Overview of all pages with the tag #Tracking the Trackers, such as: Scanning apps, off the record| Guardian Project
Overview of all pages with the tag #Open Source, such as: 7ASecurity Completes Security Audit of Círculo| Guardian Project
Overview of all pages with the tag #Nlnet, such as: The Search for Ethical Apps: Let's start with governments| Guardian Project
Overview of all pages with the tag #Security, such as: IOCipher 1.0 community reboot| Guardian Project
Overview of all pages with the tag #Android, such as: IOCipher 1.0 community reboot| Guardian Project
With 2024 now behind us, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on the growth and achievements we accomplished as a community last year, and celebrate the incredible support we received from the FOSS community throughout the journey. This year has been a milestone for us, with significant strides in decentralizing app distribution, expanding the F-Droid ecosystem, and solidifying our infrastructure. All of these advancements were made possible thanks to donations, grants, our volunteers and re...| Guardian Project
At first, the idea of encrypting more of the metadata found inside the initial packet (the “ClientHello”) of a TLS connection may seem simple and obvious, but there are of course reasons that this wasn’t done right from the start. In this post I will describe the flow of a connection using Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) to protect the metadata fields, and present a working code example using a fork of CPython built with DEfO project’s OpenSSL fork to connect to ECH-enabled HTTPS servers.| Guardian Project
It’s Opening Day of the 119th IETF meeting in Brisbane Australia. This post commences a daily rundown of privacy and Internet Freedom activities at this IETF meeting. For the rundown on IETF119 Hackathon, see my Hackathon report Dispatch IETF meetings don’t often kick off with the open dispatch but this time it happened. Dispatch sessions are meant to help specification authors find a home for their work if a home isn’t obvious.| Guardian Project
Hackathon Weekend at the 119th IETF meeting in Brisbane Australia. This post commences a daily rundown of privacy and Internet Freedom activities at this IETF meeting. IETF’s Hackathon, held at each face-to-face IETF meeting, is designed to encourage interoperability testing of standards under development. See this meeting’s wiki page for a description ofthis year’s twenty-four projects. The The HTTP Signature Authentication Scheme has been winding its way through the HTTPbis Working Gr...| Guardian Project
Guardian Project has been running its own fdroid-compatible app repository since 2012. Up until now, we worked to ensure that our repository had the same standards of free software as the official F-Droid repository. Therefore, the Guardian Project repository was included in the official F-Droid client app by default. A lot has changed since then, for the better. F-Droid has long since stopped shipping pre-built binaries from any provider. Back in the day, F-Droid shipped some binaries, like ...| Guardian Project
Overview of all pages with the tag #Tracking, such as: The Search for Ethical Apps: Let's start with governments| Guardian Project
Overview of all pages with the tag #Tor, such as: Arti, next-gen Tor on mobile| Guardian Project
Overview of all pages with the tag #Privacy, such as: 7ASecurity Completes Security Audit of Círculo| Guardian Project
Overview of all pages with the tag #Nginx, such as: Quick set up guide for Encrypted Client Hello (ECH)| Guardian Project
Overview of all pages with the tag #Metadata, such as: DEfO - Developing ECH for OpenSSL (round two)| Guardian Project
Overview of all pages with the tag #Fdroid, such as: A Look Back at 2024: F-Droid's Progress and What’s Coming in 2025| Guardian Project
Overview of all pages with the tag #F Droid, such as: A Look Back at 2024: F-Droid's Progress and What’s Coming in 2025| Guardian Project
Overview of all pages with the tag #Apache, such as: DEfO - Developing ECH for OpenSSL (round two)| Guardian Project
For software projects with recurring bugs, efficiency or security issues there’s a joke making the rounds in the software industry: “Let’s re-write it in Rust!” It’s a fairly new low-level programming language with the declared goal to help developers avoid entire classes of bugs, security issues and other pitfalls. Re-writing software is very time consuming, so it rarely happens, especially when just one more fix will keep a project up and running.| Guardian Project
Smart phones have brought us so many wonderful capabilities. They let people around the world access vast realms of information. They let app developers solve problems large and small in a way most relevent to their local context. They are personal computers for the world. They also have given surveillance capitalism an unprecedented reach into everyone’s lives. Repressive governments use them in ways that the East German Stasi secret police could only have dreamed of.| Guardian Project
Close your eyes and imagine. You are sitting, designing the next game-changing innovative idea; however, you are not worried about any information leakage or spread, as you are in control. You not only hold ownership of your data, but with each online activity, your fear of being tracked dissipates more. This new internet you explore on understands each input, tailoring the content to your specific needs as it no longer runs on basic commands, but rather uses the combination of technologies a...| Guardian Project
VPNs have become quite popular in recent years for a number of reasons, and more and more they are being touted as a privacy tool. The question is whether using a VPN does improve privacy. It is clear that VPNs are quite useful for getting access to things on the internet when direct connections are blocked. VPN providers include a number of tactics in both their client apps and server infrastructure to ensure that their users are able to make a connection.| Guardian Project
Governments across the world are moving services to mobile apps. The vast majority of these apps are only available in the Google Play store or in the Apple App store. Installing apps from these services requires users to agree to their terms of service. This means governments require their citizens to sign opaque and privacy invading contracts with foreign Big Tech in order to use digital services. This feeds ever more into Big Tech data control, filtering, and information bubbles.| Guardian Project