Projects
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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) and encrypted email. | bitmask.net | Circumvention, VPN, Email Encryption | 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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Commotion | Formerly hosted by the Open Technology Institute | "Commotion is an open-source communication tool that uses wireless devices to create decentralized mesh networks." | https://www.commotionwireless.net/ | Mesh Networking | Active |
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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 | 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 & Hosting | Active |
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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 | 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. |
Circumvention | Active | |
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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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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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Lantern | Brave New Software | Lantern is an Internet proxy tool that lets you access blocked sites. | getlantern.org | Active | |
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Mailpile | Mailpile | mailpile.is | Active | ||
| 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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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 | 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 web sites 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 & 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 & Secure Filesharing | Active | |
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OONI Probe | Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) | OONI Probe is an open source tool for detecting censorship, surveillance and traffic manipulation on the Internet. | ooni.torproject.org | 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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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 | Will be sunset on July 15th, 2019 |
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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 | 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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Ripple | Guardian Project | Ripple is a "panic button" that can send it's 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 | 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 | "Security Auditing Framework and Evaluation Template for Advocacy Groups
SAFETAG 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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Signal | Open Whisper Systems | Signal is an open source secure messaging application that uses end-to-end encryption. Signal is available for iOS, Android and desktop computers and allows users to send one-to-one messages, make voice and video calls, send group messages and voice notes. | signal.org | Active | |
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Suspicious Email Submitter | The Suspicious Email Submitter is a browser extension (Chrome, Chromium, Firefox) for the easy submission of suspicious emails to a MISP instance for further analysis. | github.com/CiviCERT/suspicious-email-submitter | 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 | 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 |
| Projects unofficially supported by Localization Lab | ||||||
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Haven | Guardian Project | guardianproject.github.io/haven/ Haven on Transifex |
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OpenArchive | Guardian Project | guardianproject.info OpenArchive on Transifex |
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| OpenCircle | Guardian Project | github.com/guardianproject/OpenCircle OpenCircle on Transifex |
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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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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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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 | |