Projects
Projects actively supported by Localization Lab
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Apple Censorship | GreatFire | Apple Censorship website lets users search and view which apps are available in different AppStores around the world. | applecensorship.com | Censorship | Active |
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Bitmask | LEAP | Bitmask is an open-source application to provide easy and secure encrypted communication. You can choose among several different service providers or start your own. Currently, Bitmask supports encrypted internet (VPN). | bitmask.net | Circumvention and VPN | Active |
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Briar | Briar Project | Briar offers peer-to-peer encrypted messaging and forums, storing data securely on your device and not in the cloud. Briar also allows you to connect directly with nearby contacts without Internet access, making messaging possible with low bandwidth or when Internet access is blocked. | briarproject.org | Secure Messaging | Active |
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Bypass Censorship Website | The Bypass Censorship website aims to connect individuals worldwide with effective tools to circumvent censorship. | bypasscensorship.org | Circumvention | Active | |
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CENO | eQualitie | CENO (short for Censorship.no!) is a mobile Web browser using a novel approach to circumvent Internet censorship infrastructure, allowing users living in a censored zone to share retrieved content with each other, peer-to-peer. | censorship.no | Circumvention | Active |
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Cupcake | Cupcake | Cupcake empowers you to assist censored internet users all over the world by turning your web browser into a pathway to the Tor network. | Cupcake Chome Extension | Active | |
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Cybersecurity Assessment Tool | Ford Foundation | The Cybersecurity Assessment Tool (CAT) is an automated questionnaire to measure the maturity, resiliency, and strength of an organization’s cybersecurity efforts. | Cybersecurity Assessment Tool | Cybersecurity | Active |
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Deflect | Equalit.ie | Deflect is a robust and innovative website protection service designed to withstand distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. | deflect.ca | Website Security and Hosting | Active |
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F-Droid | F-Droid Limited | F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform. The client makes it easy to browse, install, and keep track of updates on your device. | f-droid.org | App Store | Active |
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FreedomBox | FreedomBox Foundation | FreedomBox is a simple private server, wireless internet router, and multi-purpose tool designed to create internet freedom with only free software and inexpensive hardware. FreedomBox is a Debian-based system designed to protect against data-mining, surveillance, and censorship. | freedombox.org | Personal Server | Active |
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FreeBooks | GreatFire | Note: FreeBrowser is a closed source project. FreeBooks is a free Android app that provides access to censored books, primarily in Mainland China and Iran. |
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FreeBrowser | GreatFire | Note: FreeBrowser is a closed source project. FreeBrowser is a free Android app that provides access to an uncensored internet. |
freebrowser.org | Circumvention | Active |
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Freenet | The Freenet Project Inc. | Freenet is free software which lets you anonymously share files, browse and publish "freesites" (web sites accessible only through Freenet) and chat on forums, without fear of censorship. | freenetproject.org | Active | |
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Globaleaks | Hermes Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights | GlobaLeaks is an open source project aimed at creating a worldwide, anonymous, censorship-resistant, distributed whistleblowing platform. | globaleaks.org | Active | |
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I2P (Invisible Internet Project) | I2P is an anonymous network built on top of the internet. It allows netizens to create and access content and build online communities on a network that is both distributed and dynamic. It is intended to protect communication and resist monitoring by third parties such as ISPs. | geti2p.net | Active | ||
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Journalists in Distress | Canadian Journalists for Free Expression | Journalists in Distress is a a digital security guide targeting journalists working in hostile environments. | www.cjfe.org | Active | |
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KeePassXC | KeePassXC is a modern, secure, and open-source password manager for storing and managing most sensitive information. | KeePassXC.org | Active | ||
| keys.openpgp.org | keys.openpgp.org | The keys.openpgp.org server is a public service for the distribution and discovery of OpenPGP-compatible keys, commonly referred to as a 'keyserver'. | keys.openpgp.org | Active | ||
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Lantern | Brave New Software | Lantern is an Internet proxy tool that lets you access blocked sites. | getlantern.org | Active | |
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Mailvelope | Mailvelope | Mailvelope is an easy-to-use browser extension for Chrome and Firefox that enables the exchange of encrypted emails following the OpenPGP encryption standard. | mailvelope.com | Email Encryption | Active |
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MassBrowser | The Secure, Private Internet Research Group (SPIN) | MassBrowser is a state-of-the-art system designed to circumvent Internet censorship. MassBrowser is open-source and free to use. It has been designed and developed by the Secure, Private Internet (SPIN) Research Group at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. MassBrowser operates with the help of normal Internet users with open access to the Internet who volunteer to help censored Internet users. | massbrowser.cs.umass.edu | Pending | |
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NoScript | NoScript is a Firefox extension that provides extra protection for Firefox, Seamonkey, and other Mozilla-based browsers. It is a free, open-source add-on that allows JavaScript, Java, Flash, and other plugins to be executed only by trusted websites of your choice. | noscript.net | Active | ||
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Onion Browser | Onion Browser is a free and open-source web browser for iPhone and iPad that encrypts and tunnels web traffic through the Tor network, with extra features to help you browse the internet privately. | mike.tig.as/onionbrowser | Circumvention, Anonymous and Secure Browsing | Active | |
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OnionShare | OnionShare is an open-source tool that lets you securely and anonymously share a file of any size. | onionshare.org | Anonymous and Secure Filesharing | Active | |
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OONI | Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) | Founded in 2012, the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) is a non-profit free software project that aims to empower decentralized efforts in documenting internet censorship around the world. | ooni.org | Network measurement project | Active |
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OpenKeychain | OpenKeychain is an app for Android that helps you communicate more privately and securely. It is based on the well established OpenPGP standard making encryption compatible across your devices and operating systems. | openkeychain.org | Key Management, Encryption | Active | |
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Orbot | Guardian Project | Orbot is a free proxy app that empowers other apps to use the internet more securely. Orbot uses Tor to encrypt your Internet traffic and then hides it by bouncing through a series of computers around the world. Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis. Orbot creates a truly private mobile internet connection. | guardianproject.info | Circumvention | Active |
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Psiphon | Psiphon | Psiphon is an open-source Internet censorship circumvention tool that uses a combination of secure communication and obfuscation technologies (VPN, SSH, and HTTP Proxy). | psiphon.ca | Circumvention, VPN | Active |
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Qubes OS | Qubes OS | Qubes OS is a "relatively secure operating system" that secures your digital life by compartmentalizing your data and online activities. | qubes-os.org | Active | |
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SecureDrop | Freedom of the Press Foundation | SecureDrop is an open-source whistleblower submission system that media organizations can use to securely accept documents from and communicate with anonymous sources. | securedrop.org | Active | |
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SAFETAG | Internews | SAFETAG (Security Auditing Framework and Evaluation Template for Advocacy Groups) is a professional audit framework that adapts traditional penetration testing and risk assessment methodologies to be relevant to smaller non-profit organizations based or operating in the developing world. | safetag.org | Active | |
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Save | OpenArchive | Save is a mobile app designed to help users preserve, protect, and amplify audio/visual media. It is a project of OpenArchive and is free, open-source, and currently available for Android (iOS coming soon!). Functionalities include privacy, mobile archiving, preservation, circumvention, adding metadata and Creative Commons licensing to audio/visual mobile media and sending it to the Internet Archive and other archives over the privacy-focused Tor network. | open-archive.org/save | Active | |
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Shira | Horizontal | Shira helps users develop the skills needed to identify and defeat phishing attacks on email and messaging apps. | shira.app | Educational | Active |
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Tella | Horizontal | Tella is a documentation app for Android. In challenging environments--with limited or no internet connectivity or in the face of repression--Tella makes it easier and safer to document events, whether that’s violence, human rights violations, corruption, or electoral fraud. | hzontal.org/tella | Active | |
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PhishDetect | PhishDetect is a tool to help at-risk users to identify potential phishing attacks. It allows to distribute up-to-date blocklists, to easily detect and report suspicious emails and links, and to scan unknown pages. | phishdetect.io | Active | ||
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Tails | Tails | Tails is a complete operating system that aims to preserve your privacy and anonymity. It helps you to use the Internet anonymously and circumvent censorship almost anywhere you go and on any computer but leaving no trace unless you ask it to explicitly. It is Free Software and based on Debian GNU/Linux. | tails.boum.org | Active | |
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Tor | Tor Project | Tor protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, and it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical location. | torproject.org | Active | |
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Umbrella App | Security First | Umbrella is a one-stop-shop for all the latest tools and information needed to operate safely in a hostile environment. | secfirst.org | Active | |
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VeraCrypt | IDRIX | Full disk encryption software for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux | www.veracrypt.fr | Full-Disk Encryption | Active |
Other projects supported by Localization Lab
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CalyxOS | Calyx Institute | calyxos.org | Active | ||
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Check | Meedan | checkmedia.org Check on Transifex |
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Delta Chat | Delta Chat is like Telegram or Whatsapp but without the tracking or central control. Delta Chat does not need your phone number. | Delta Chat website Delta Chat on Transifex |
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| Outline | Jigsaw | getoutline.org | Active | |||
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ProofMode | Guardian Project | guardianproject.info ProofMode on Transifex |
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| Zom | Guardian Project | Zom on Transifex | Active |
Inactive projects formerly supported by Localization Lab
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CameraV | Guardian Project | "CameraV is the easiest way to capture and share verifiable photos and video proof on a smartphone or tablet, all the while keeping it entirely secure and private." | guardianproject.info | Inactive - See ProofMode | |
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Firetweet | Brave New Software | "FireTweet is an Android app powered by Lantern that gives direct unblocked access to Twitter from anywhere in the world." | firetweet.io | Inactive | |
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Gnu Privacy Guard | Guardian Project | Gnu Privacy Guard (GnuPG) for Android brings the widespread standard in OpenPGP encryption to Android. GnuPG provides solid encryption for keeping emails and files private, and for verifying that emails and files are who you think they are. | guardianproject.info | Inactive - See OpenKeychain | |
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Martus | Benetech | Martus is an open-source software application that allows users anywhere in the world to securely gather and organize information about human rights violations. | martus.org | Inactive | |
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NetAidKit | Free Press Unlimited | The NetAidKit is a pocket-size, USB-powered router that connects everything to everything, designed specifically for non-technical users. The easy to use web interface will allow you to connect the NetAidKit to a wireless or wired network and share that connection with your other devices, such as a phone, laptop or tablet. | netaidkit.net | Inactive | |
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Orfox | Guardian Project | "Orfox is built from the same source code as Tor Browser (which is built upon Firefox), but with a few minor modifications to the privacy enhancing features to make them compatible with Firefox for Android and the Android operating system" | guardianproject.info | Inactive - See Tor | |
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Orweb | Guardian Project | guardianproject.info | Inactive - See Tor | ||
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Peerio | Peerio | Peerio is a cloud-based encrypted communications suite, available for Android, Apple iOS, Windows, Mac, Linux, and as a Google Chrome extension. | peerio.com | Secure Messaging, Encryption | Inactive Peerio Service Closure FAQ |
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secureApp Generator | Benetech | The secureApp Generator by Benetech will provide a public system for the creation of secure, multi-lingual, and open source data collection apps that will improve information management and reduce the risk of exposure for reporters, researchers, and activists. By lowering the barrier to strong, open source encryption, this app will democratize technology and empower citizens. | martus.org | Inactive | |
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Storymaker | Small World News | StoryMaker is an Android app that enables aspiring journalists all over the world to safely produce and publish professional-grade news with their phone. | storymaker.org | Inactive | |
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CGIProxy | Berkeley Institute for Free Speech Online | CGIProxy is a client-less circumvention tool that allows individuals to access blocked content on their web browser by proxying it through a server running CGIProxy outside of the region of the censoring filter. | freespeechonline.net/download | Circumvention | Inactive |
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Commotion | Formerly hosted by the Open Technology Institute | "Commotion is an open-source communication tool that uses wireless devices to create decentralized mesh networks." | www.commotionwireless.net | Mesh Networking | Inactive |
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Courier | Guardian Project | Courier is a mobile news reader with enhanced security features, offline reading and device-to-device sharing capability. We’ve designed it to be fast and light on slow networks and secured from device and network monitoring. | guardianproject.info | Secure RSS Feeds | Inactive |
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Enigmail | The Enigmail Project | Enigmail is a Mozilla Thunderbird add-on that allows you to use OpenPGP to encrypt and digitally sign your emails and to decrypt and verify messages you receive. | enigmail.net | Email Encryption | Inactive |
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Mailpile | Mailpile | mailpile.is | Inactive | ||
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ObscuraCam | Guardian Project | "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." | guardianproject.info | Photo, Video | Inactive |
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Pixelknot | Guardian Project | Pixelknot is an Android application that allows users to hide short text-based messages in photographs and share them across trusted channels. | guardianproject.info | Inactive | |
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Ripple | Guardian Project | Ripple is a "panic button" that can send its trigger message to any app that is a "panic responder". Such apps can do things like lock, disguise themselves, delete private data, send an emergency message, and more. It is meant for situations where there is time to react, but where users need to be sure it is not mistakenly set off. | guardianproject.info | Inactive | |
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Haven | Guardian Project | guardianproject.github.io/haven/ Haven on Transifex |
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| OpenCircle | Guardian Project | github.com/guardianproject/OpenCircle OpenCircle on Transifex |
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