Guardian Project

Amazing work by Fabiola Maurice, Community Lead at Guardian Project, sharing our work at RightsCon 2025 in building offline internet resiliency through Butter Box tools and trainings. As loss of internet incidents continue to increase due to both natural and manmade catastrophes, the Butter project helps prepare people and communities with simple tools to help reconnet with eachother and essential resources. Learn more at https://likebutter.app ??

Founded in 2009, we are a global team with deep experience who enhances privacy and security for all through building free and open software and services. We rely on innovation and collaboration to empower speech, enhance safety, ensure authenticity, and expand access to knowledge, regardless of device, location or connectivity. Explore our story and impact below, and learn more at https://lnkd.in/ggJwq7xn

Preserve resiliently!

Founded in 2009, we are a global team with deep experience who enhances privacy and security for all through building free and open software and services. We rely on innovation and collaboration to empower speech, enhance safety, ensure authenticity, and expand access to knowledge, regardless of device, location or connectivity. Explore our story and impact below, and learn more at https://lnkd.in/ggJwq7xn

We are thrilled to announce that a community contributor has picked up maintaining a fork of IOCipher and updated to IOCipher 1.0, designed to enhance your development experience and empower you to create more secure applications with ease. ?? IOCipher is a virtual encrypted disk for apps without requiring the device to be rooted. It uses a clone of the standard java.io API for working with files. Just password handling & opening the virtual disk are what stand between developers and fully encrypted file storage. It is based on libsqlfs and SQLCipher. Here’s what’s new and why it matters to you: 1. Enhanced Features We introduced a few new features. Most notably IOCipher is also available on Desktop Java for Linux and Windows now. (Although not all IOCipher features are fully supported on Windows). The latest release even includes some example code for accessing IOCipher VFS using Python. 2. Dependency updates We updated to the newest SQLCipher and OpenSSL. 3. Bug Fixes and Stability Now your virtual files can be as large as you want, there is no longer a hard limit at 4 GB. We fixed some bugs that testing the JNI code with ASAN has found. Learn more at: https://lnkd.in/dfPMcne8