Technological Collaboration in a Closing World
Technological Collaboration in a Closing World About The Guardian Project While smartphones have been heralded as the coming of the next generation of communication and collaboration, they are a step backwards when it comes to personal security, anonymity and privacy. Guardian Project creates easy to use secure apps, open-source software libraries, and customized mobile devices that can be used around the world by any person looking to protect their communications and personal data from unjust intrusion, interception and monitoring. The Guardian Project's core application suite (Orbot, Orweb/Orfox, ChatSecure, FDroid, etc) provide a baseline set of privacy and security capabilities to the common activities of browsing, messaging and getting apps on an Android smartphone. They have shipped multiple releases over the past 4 years, utilizing best practices for free software projects, community driven development, and support for tested technologies and open standards, such as Tor, OTR, XMPP, and Firefox. In addition, they have acted as a catalyst to do the initial development work on ports to Android for technologies like SQLCipher, GnuPG, Tor, Privoxy, and even Debian. About the Author Seamus Tuohy is the principal consultant at Prudent Innovation LLC. Prudent Innovation provides technical and security guidance, development, research, and programmatic support to organizations working in complex or hostile environments. Mr. Tuohy has worked with donors, Human Rights defenders, Civil Society, and International NGOs around the globe to to assess, address, and adaptively manage risks in their work. He is also one of the chief architects of "The Security Auditing Framework and Evaluation Template for Advocacy Groups" (SAFETAG), which adapts traditional risk assessment methodologies to be relevant to low-resourced non-profit organizations based or operating in the developing world.
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