Android apps by The Guardian Project

Orweb: Private Web Browser

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:13:37 +0000

Orweb is the most private and anonymous web browser on Android for visiting any website, even if it’s normally censored, monitored, or on the hidden web.

★ ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTES: Orweb is the safest browser on Android. Period. Orweb evades tracking and censorship by bouncing your encrypted traffic several times through computers around the world, instead of connecting you directly like VPNs and proxies. This process takes a little longer, but the strongest privacy and identity protection available is worth the wait.
★ CIRCUMVENT FIREWALLS AND RESTRICTIONS: Does your office, school, or region block certain websites? Not anymore. Orweb bypasses almost every kind of network restriction.
★ BROWSE ANONYMOUSLY: As the New York Times writes, “when a communication arrives from Tor, you can never know where or whom it’s from.” No technology is 100% effective, but Orweb is as close to anonymous as it’s possible to get on Android.
★ PRIVACY YOU CAN TRUST: The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) says “the groundbreaking work from the Tor project helps users everywhere improve the safety of their online communications.”

***IMPORTANT***
Requires the free Orbot plugin. Download it here: http://goo.gl/IzfFG

***Features***
★ NO BROWSING HISTORY: Orweb does not store any information about the websites you visit.
★ FLEXIBLE COOKIE CONTROL: You can prevent sites you visit from installing any cookies (which could track your web activities), allow them selectively, or allow any site to create cookies.
★ DISGUISE YOUR DEVICE: You choose which phone or computer websites you visit think you are using.
★ RESISTANT TO JAVASCRIPT ATTACKS: JavaScript, a common attack method for malicious software, is disabled by default.
★ RESISTANT TO FLASH VULNERABILITIES: Orweb attempts to prevent Flash from loading on sites you visit, blocking many common security threats.
★ EASY TO USE: You’re just a few clicks away from free, anonymous web surfing. For a quick, interactive walkthrough, visit our website: https://guardianproject.info/howto/browsefreely
★ OPEN-SOURCE: Our code is transparent. You can take a look or join the community to help make Orweb even better: https://github.com/guardianproject/orweb
★ FREEDOM IN YOUR LANGUAGE: Orweb is available in: Arabic (العربية), Chinese (中文简体), Dutch (Nederlands), English, Esperanto, Farsi (فارسی), French (Français), German (Deutsch), Greek (Ελληνικά), Hungarian (Magyar Nyelv), Italian (Italiano), Norwegian (Norsk), Russian (Русский), Spanish (Español), Swedish (Svensk), and Tibetan (བོད་སྐད།).

Don’t see your language? Join us and help translate the app: https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/orweb

***Learn More***
★ ABOUT US: Guardian Project is a group of developers that make secure mobile apps and open-source code for a better tomorrow.
★ OUR WEBSITE: http://GuardianProject.info to learn more about us.
★ ON TWITTER: https://twitter.com/guardianproject
★ OPEN-SOURCE: Orweb is free software. You can take a look at our source code, or join the community to help make Orweb even better: https://github.com/guardianproject/Orweb
★ MESSAGE US: Are we missing your favorite feature? Found an annoying bug? Please tell us! We’d love to hear from you. Send us an email: root@guardianproject.info.

***Disclaimer***
The Guardian Project makes apps that are designed to protect your security and anonymity. The protocols that we use are widely regarded as the state of the art in security technology. While we are constantly upgrading our software to combat the latest threats and eliminate bugs, no technology is 100% foolproof. For maximum security and anonymity users must utilize best practices to keep themselves safe. You can find a good introductory guide to these topics at https://securityinabox.org

Anonymous, Anonymous Browsing, Anonymity, Censorship, Circumvention, Darknet, Do Not Track, Filtering, Firewall, Guardian Project, Hidden, Identity, Incognito, Privacy, Private, Private Browsing, Private Web, Proxy, Security, Tor

Recent changes:
What's new in version 2:
+ NEW: Supports pinch and zoom
+ NEW: Does not reload on rotate
+ NEW: Supports copy and paste
+ IMPROVED: Progress indicator

Gibberbot: Free Secure Chat

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 05:45:24 +0000

Free unlimited messaging with your friends over Facebook Chat, Google Chat & more! Works with Android, iPhone, Mac, Linux or PC.

PC Mag “100 Best Android Apps of 2013.”
★ COMPLETELY FREE, UNLIMITED MESSAGING: No charges, ever. Chat all day with your friends across the street or across the ocean.
★ CHAT WITH ANYONE, ANYWHERE: Chat with your friends on Google Chat (GChat), Facebook Chat, VKontakte, Yandex, Hyves, Odnoklassniki, StudiVZ, Livejournal, Jabber, and more!
★ WORKS ON EVERY PLATFORM: Android with Gibberbot, iPhone with ChatSecure, Mac with Adium, Linux with Jitsi, Windows with Pidgin, and more!
★ UNBEATABLE PRIVACY: We keep your messages 100% private using state of the art Off-The-Record (OTR) encryption. Your conversations cannot be logged or intercepted by anyone. NOTE: These security measures only apply when your friend uses a compatible OTR client like Gibberbot, ChatSecure, Adium or Pidgin.
★ NO SNOOPING: Your connection is encrypted so nobody can spy on your conversation. And the messages aren't even kept in system memory for any prying apps to find.
★ AUTOMATICALLY ADDS YOUR FRIENDS: When you login with any account, including Google and Facebook, your contacts are added immediately.
★ FUN BUILT-IN: Multiple themes are included and you can create your own custom wallpapers. Your friends get cute personal icons too!
★ CHAT THAT CAN’T BE BLOCKED: Use Gibberbot with our privacy plugin Orbot to bypass almost all firewalls, network restrictions and blacklists. Get the Orbot plugin, powered by Tor: http://goo.gl/lpnda
★ CHAT ON ANY SCREEN: Gibberbot is designed to be beautiful on any Android phone, tablet, or phablet.
★ AD-FREE: We want your love, not your money.
★ EASY TUTORIAL: Gibberbot is easy to use. Click here for a quick, interactive walkthrough: https://guardianproject.info/howto/chatsecurely
★ WE SPEAK YOUR LANGUAGE: Gibberbot is available for friends who speak:
Arabic (العربية), Chinese (中文简体), Czech (Čeština), Danish (Dansk), Dutch (Nederlands), English, Esperanto, Farsi (فارسی), French (Français), German (Deutsch), Greek (Ελληνικά), Hungarian (Magyar Nyelv), Italian (Italiano), Japanese (日本語) Korean (조선말), Norwegian (Norsk), Portuguese (Português), Russian (Русский), Spanish (Español), Slovak (Slovenčina), Swedish (Svensk), Tibetan (བོད་སྐད།), Turkish (Türkçe), and Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt).

Don’t see your language? Join us and help translate the app: https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/gibberbot

***Learn More***
★ ABOUT US: Guardian Project is a group of developers that make secure mobile apps and open-source code for a better tomorrow.
★ OUR WEBSITE: GuardianProject.info
★ ON TWITTER: https://twitter.com/guardianproject
★ OPEN-SOURCE: Gibberbot is free software. You can take a look at our source code, or join the community to help make Gibberbot even better: https://github.com/guardianproject/Gibberbot
★ MESSAGE US: Are we missing your favorite feature? Found an annoying bug? Please tell us! We’d love to hear from you. Send us an email: root@guardianproject.info

***Disclaimer***
The Guardian Project makes apps that are designed to protect your security and anonymity. The protocols that we use are widely regarded as the state of the art in security technology. While we are constantly upgrading our software to combat the latest threats and eliminate bugs, no technology is 100% foolproof. For maximum security and anonymity users must utilize best practices to keep themselves safe. You can find a good introductory guide to these topics at https://securityinabox.org

Adium, Cypherpunks, ChatSecure, Encrypted Messages, Facebook Chat, Google Chat, GChat, GTalk, Hidden Message, Hidden Messages, Hidden Messaging, Hyves, iMessage, Jabber, IMO, Jitsi, OAUTH, Off-the-Record (OTR), Pidgin, Private Chat, Private Messages, Private Messaging, Secret Chat, Secret Messages, Secret Messaging, Secure Messages, Secure Messaging, TLS, Viber, vkontakte, WeChat, WhatsApp, XMPP

Recent changes:
New in Version 11:
+ FIXED: Automatic login with your device’s Google Account
+ FIXED: Authentication issue with some Gmail accounts
+ FIXED: No more crazy flashing screens (yay!)
+ FIXED: Verify OTR security key using QR codes
+ FIXED: Only starts at boot if you want it to
+ FIXED: Connect using a Google account not already linked to your device
+ IMPROVED: Better at detecting if network connection is working
+ IMPROVED: Exit menu option
+ IMPROVED: Harder to spoof secure SSL connections

StoryMaker - BETA

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 04:28:05 +0000

(PLEASE NOTE: While the Guardian Project is hosting this BETA release, this app and service was developed and supported by a number of organizations. You can learn more here: http://storymaker.cc/about/ )

WHAT IS STORYMAKER?

StoryMaker is an open source app that enables existing and aspiring journalists all over the world to produce and publish professional-grade news with their Android phone, as safely and securely as possible. It provides an interactive training guide, walkthroughs, and templates for users to follow as they plan their piece and capture media. The app then helps assemble the content into a finished format, with cuts and basic graphics.

THIS IS A BETA PREVIEW RELEASE - PLEASE REPORT ALL BUGS AT:
https://dev.guardianproject.info/projects/wrapp/issues/new

Recent changes:
- major updated to rendering/export code
- resolved audio sync issue
- improved lesson and publishing handling of slow networks
- general user interface bug fixes

ObscuraCam: The Privacy Camera

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:51:28 +0000

In a world of viral videos and facial recognition, ObscuraCam helps you share photos and videos while protecting the privacy of you and those you care about. With ObscuraCam you can blur and disguise faces in your photos and videos. Information that could identify you as the cameraperson is removed from the files for added security.

★ PRIVACY FOR YOUR PICTURES: ObscuraCam can be used as a camera to take photos, or to anonymize photos and videos you’ve already taken.
★ DISGUISE YOURSELF: Cover faces with pixelate, redact (blackout) or funny nose and glasses
★ AUTOMATIC FACE DETECTION: ObscuraCam automatically detects faces in both photos and videos, so you can quickly and easily anonymize a crowd or a long video.
★ MULTIPLE PRIVACY MODES: Faces can be pixelated, removed completely, or disguised with funny nose and glasses. You can also blur everything except a small portion of an image.
★ SHARE SECURELY: We remove all identifying data stored in photos including GPS location data and phone make & model so you can save the protected photo back to the Gallery, or share it directly to Facebook, Twitter or any other "Share" enabled app.
★ PROTECTS THE IDENTITY OF THE PHOTOGRAPHER: Smartphones attach information to every photo they take, including where it was taken and by what type of camera. ObscuraCam removes all of this information.
★ AWARD-WINNING: ObscuraCam was a Winner of the 2013 Knight News Challenge

***Learn More***
★ PARTNERSHIP: ObscuraCam is a partnership between the security experts at the Guardian Project and WITNESS.org, a non-profit using the power of video and storytelling to open the eyes of the world to human rights abuses.
★ ABOUT US: Guardian Project is a group of developers that make secure mobile apps and open-source code for a better tomorrow.
★ OUR WEBSITE: GuardianProject.info.
★ ABOUT WITNESS: A non-profit using the power of video and storytelling to open the eyes of the world to human rights abuses.
★ WITNESS’ WEBSITE: http://witness.org
★ ON TWITTER: https://twitter.com/guardianproject & https://twitter.com/witnessorg
★ OPEN-SOURCE: ObscuraCam is free software. You can take a look at our source code, or join the community to help make Orweb even better: https://github.com/guardianproject/SecureSmartCam
★ MESSAGE US: Are we missing your favorite feature? Found an annoying bug? Please tell us! We’d love to hear from you. Send us an email: root@guardianproject.info.

face detection, blur, pixelize, human rights, activism, orbot, tor, privacy, obscure, obscura, privacy camera, camera, photo editor, journalist, journalism, photoshop, video, video processing, mosaic, anonymity

Recent changes:
Release Candidate 2b:
+ Allows for better region editing
+ Fix video filter memory leak
+ Some ICS and JellyBean bugs

Lil' Debi: Debian Installer

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:13:15 +0000

Want an easy Debian chroot running that you can trust? Install Lil’ Debi, and you can have a Debian install running with a single click of a button. It builds up a whole Debian chroot on your phone entirely using debootstrap. You choose the release, mirror, and size of the disk image, and away it goes. It could take up to an hour on a slow device, then its done. The entire package is built from source using publicly available, repeatable builds. It even validates every package using the official Debian repository keys, which are included in the app. It will also check and update a SHA1 checksum to make sure your debian install has not be tampered with.

Then it has a simple chroot manager that fscks your disk, mounts/unmounts things, starts/stops sshd if you have it installed, etc. You can also then use ‘apt-get’ to install any package that is released for ARM processors. This includes things like a complete real shell, Tor, TraceRouteTCP, iwconfig/ipconfig, and other security and crypto tools. Works well with Android Terminal Emulator, just run `/debian/shell` to get a Debian shell.

The aim of Lil’ Debi is to provide a transparent and tightly integrated Debian install on your Android device. It mounts all of your Android partitions in Debian space, so you see a fusion of both systems. Its even possible to have Lil’ Debi launch the normal Debian init start-up scripts when it starts, so that all you need to do is apt-get install and any servers you install will just work.

Lil' Debi works with as few modifications to the Android system as possible. Currently, it only adds a /bin symlink, and a /debian mount directory. It does not touch /system at all.

*** THIS APP REQUIRES ROOT : ADVANCED USERS ONLY ***

★ WE SPEAK YOUR LANGUAGE: Lil' Debi is available for friends who speak: English and Turkish (Türkçe).

Don’t see your language? Join us and help translate the app: https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/lildebi/.

***Please Report Bugs***
This is a big project, so bugs are inevitable. Help us improve this software by filing bug reports about any problem that you encounter. Feature requests are also welcome!
https://github.com/guardianproject/lildebi/issues

***Learn More***
★ ABOUT US: Guardian Project is a group of developers that make secure mobile apps and open-source code for a better tomorrow.
★ OUR WEBSITE: https://GuardianProject.info.
★ CHAT WITH US: we want feedback! Find us on IRC: #guardianproject on freenode and oftc
★ ON TWITTER: https://twitter.com/guardianproject.
★ OPEN-SOURCE: Our code is transparent. You can take a look or join the community to help make Lil' Debi even better https://github.com/guardianproject/lildebi
★ FREE SOFTWARE: We operate under the GNU General Public License (GPLv3+)
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html

Recent changes:
v0.4.2
+ added preference to set image file location
+ added Turkish translation
+ complete Debian package verification
+ choose the CPU arch: armhf or armel
+ improved loop device allocation
+ various GUI bugfixes and improvements

v0.4.1
+ default to ext4 or ext3 for new installs
+ auto-detect best supported filesystem
+ include e2fsck, many phones do not have it (!!!)
+ new preference: enable SHA1 check of debian.img
+ included scripts are now editable
+ "app_bin" renamed on upgrade
...

GnuPG: Command-Line

Thu, 09 May 2013 13:12:31 +0000

This alpha release of our command-line developer tool brings GnuPG to Android for the first time!

GNU Privacy Guard Command-Line (gpgcli) gives you command line access to the entire GnuPG suite of encryption software. GPG is GNU’s tool for end-to-end secure communication and encrypted data storage. This trusted protocol is the free software alternative to PGP. GnuPG 2.1 is the new modularized version of GnuPG that now supports OpenPGP and S/MIME.

***Setup***
Before using gpgcli, be sure to launch the app and let it finish its installation process. Once it has completed, then you're ready to use it. The easiest way to get started with gpgcli is to install Android Terminal Emulator. gpgcli will automatically configure Android Terminal Emulator as long as you have the "Allow PATH extensions" settings enabled. Get the Android Terminal Emulator at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jackpal.androidterm

***Features***
★ TRUSTED SECURITY: This technology already seamlessly integrates into Linux on Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Mac OSX (GPGtools), Windows (gpg4win)
★ PUBLIC KEY ENCRYPTION: Full interoperable replacement of the proprietary Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) standard that uses a serial combination of hashing, data compression, symmetric-key cryptography and finally public-key cryptography; each step uses one of everal supported algorithms.
★ BROAD ALGORITHM LANDSCAPE: Supports 3DES, AES, Blowfish, CAST5, DSA, ElGamal, MD5, RSA, RIPDE-MD-160, SHA-1, TIGER, and Twofish.
★ VERIFIABLE INTEGRITY AND AUTHENTICITY: Digital signatures create a trusted trail of ownership.
★ CONFIRMED SECURITY: Italian Police, the FBI, and British police have been unable to crack its security and have resorted to demanding private keys. It’s been likened as “the closest you’re likely to get to military-grade encryption” by cryptographer Bruce Schneier.
★ HELP SYSTEM: A quick help tool is built in.
★ KEYSERVER SUPPORT: Integrated support for HKP and LDAP keyservers (keys.gnupg.net).
★ OPEN STANDARD COMPLIANT: Full OpenPGP implementation. Learn more about standards RFC2440 at http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2440 & RFC4880 at http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4880

***Please Report Bugs***
This is an early release of a big project, so there will inevitable be bugs. Help us improve this software by filing bug reports about any problem that you encounter. Feature requests are also welcome!
https://dev.guardianproject.info/projects/gpgandroid/issues

***Coming Soon***
★ SECURITY FOR APPS: We have an API in the works so that developers can easily embed this into any app to give it state of the art security features.
★ GUI: We’re building a graphical user interface for easy key management.
★ STAY UP TO DATE: Sign up for our low-traffic Guardian-Dev mailing list to be notified when the API and GUI are released: https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/guardian-dev.

***Learn More***
★ ABOUT US: Guardian Project is a group of developers that make secure mobile apps and open-source code for a better tomorrow.
★ OUR WEBSITE: https://GuardianProject.info.
★ CHAT WITH US: we want feedback! irc://irc.freenode.net/guardianproject or irc://irc.oftc.net/guardianproject
★ ON TWITTER: https://twitter.com/guardianproject.
★ OPEN-SOURCE: Our code is transparent. You can take a look or join the community to help make GnuPG for Android even better https://github.com/guardianproject/gnupg-for-android
★ FREE SOFTWARE: We operate under the GNU General Public License (GPLv3+)
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html

CACertMan

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 22:23:48 +0000

Allow user on ROOTED devices to browse, search, backup, restore and delete SSL Root Authority certificates from their Android cacerts.bks keystore.

Designed to address the hacks to root CAs such as Diginotar.

Tags: Diginotar, Comodo, CACerts

Recent changes:
- added to market

NoteCipher

Sat, 09 Jul 2011 04:14:32 +0000

This is a simple open-source notepad app which demonstrates the capability of the SQLCipher for Android encrypted database library. All notes created and stored by this app are saved fully secured using industry standard 256-bit AES encryption. They are never stored in an unencrypted state on the disk, only in memory.

The source and project can be found here:
https://github.com/guardianproject/notepadbot

SQLCipher is an SQLite extension that provides transparent 256-bit AES encryption of database files. To date, the core library has been open-sourced, sponsored and maintained by Zetetic LLC, and it was ported to Android in 2011 by the Guardian Project.

Learn more about SQLCipher for Android here:
https://guardianproject.info/code/sqlcipher/

Export compliance for this application is managed through the SQLCipher project: https://github.com/sjlombardo/sqlcipher

notepad, notes, note taking, secure, encrypted, sqlcipher, free, open-source

Recent changes:
- now works on ICS, JB.. all of Android!

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- now support "Lock" option to close database
- removal of in memory password cacheing (more secure!)
- upgrades notes from previous versions now
- Added support for Android 2.1 through to Android 3.1
- Supports storage of photos and text
- Support import and export through share option