The Guardian Project team spends a lot of time thinking about users. (example or lighthearted comment about Guardians love of UI/UX) In our work we focus on easy-to-use applications for users in high-risk scenarios. Because of this we are very focused on security. In our current work with the FDroid community to make it a secure, streamlined, and verifiable app…
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New Partnership with Circle of 6 mobile safety app
Circle of 6 Focuses on Security with Guardian Project Partnership Safety App Will Get End-to-End Encryption and More To Support High-Risk Communities New York, NY: Two innovative organizations have partnered to bring increased digital security and privacy capabilities to users interested in improved safety for their mobile devices. Tech 4 Good, the developer of Circle of 6, a highly regarded…
Orfox 1.2.1 released
We’ve released a new version of Orfox, our Tor Browser for Android, that contains an an important security update to Firefox. This update is based on the latest release of Tor Browser, which was announced with this message: The security flaw responsible for this urgent release is already actively exploited on Windows systems. Even though there is currently, to the best…
Orfox 1.2: An Overdue Update to Our Privacy-Focused Browser!
Primarily this release is the first in a long while after improving our ability to stay up-to-date with core Tor Browser development. In addition, as Mozilla adds more and more features to the core Firefox, we must review them for any issues related to increased permission request, access to data, and privacy and network leaks. This is a slow, tedious…
OpenArchive: Free & Secure Mobile Media Sharing #DWebSummit
I am excited to share another new “mini app” effort we have joined up with, as part of work we are doing to create simple, focused tools that solve a single issue. We also are aiming to builds apps that are 1 to 3MB in size, and work on Android phones back to version 2.3, in order to maximize accessibility for a…