Projects
Projects actively supported by Localization Lab
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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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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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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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Hyphanet (formerly Freenet) | The Freenet Project Inc. | Hyphanet is free software which lets you anonymously share files, browse and publish "freesites" (web sites accessible only through Hyphanet) and chat on forums, without fear of censorship. | freenetproject.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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KeePassXC | KeePassXC is a modern, secure, and open-source password manager for storing and managing most sensitive information. | KeePassXC.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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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 Tools | 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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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. | guardianproject.info | Circumvention | 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 by OpenArchive | 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. | 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. | hzontal.org/tella | 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. | 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. | torproject.org | Active |
Other projects supported by Localization Lab
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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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CalyxOS | Calyx Institute | calyxos.org | 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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Check | Meedan | checkmedia.org Check on Transifex |
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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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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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| 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 | ||
| Outline | Jigsaw | getoutline.org | Active | |||
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ProofMode | Guardian Project | guardianproject.info ProofMode on Transifex |
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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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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 |
| Zom | Guardian Project | Zom on Transifex | Active |
Inactive projects formerly 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 | Inactive |
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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. | briarproject.org | Secure Messaging | Inactive |
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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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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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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 | 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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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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FreeBooks | GreatFire | Note: FreeBooks 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 | 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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Haven | Guardian Project | guardianproject.github.io/haven/ | Inactive | ||
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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 | Inactive | |
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Mailpile | Mailpile | mailpile.is | Inactive | ||
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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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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. | massbrowser.cs.umass.edu | 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. | netaidkit.net | 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. | guardianproject.info | Photo, Video | Inactive |
| OpenCircle | Guardian Project | github.com/guardianproject/OpenCircle | Inactive | |||
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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 | 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 |
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PhishDetect | PhishDetect is a tool to help at-risk users to identify potential phishing attacks. It allows to distribution of up-to-date blocklists, to easily detect and report suspicious emails and links, and to scan unknown pages. | phishdetect.io | 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". | guardianproject.info | Inactive | |
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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. | 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 |