[Ssc-dev] Fwd: [guardian-dev] (Potential) Knight News funding of SecureSmartCam = a #WIN for open-source mobile security

[Nathan of Guardian]

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Subject: [guardian-dev] (Potential) Knight News funding of
SecureSmartCam = a #WIN for open-source mobile security
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:16:00 -0400
From: Nathan of Guardian <nathan at guardianproject.info>
Organization: The Guardian Project
To: guardian-dev <guardian-dev at lists.mayfirst.org>,
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(You can view this email as a post here:
https://guardianproject.info/2012/03/29/knight-news-funding-of-securesmartcam-a-win-for-open-source-mobile-security/
and even get to hear me speak!)

Along with our partner WITNESS, we?ve entered our SecureSmartCam
project into the Knight News Challenge, and we need your support to
get to the next round.

Link:
http://newschallenge.tumblr.com/post/19436756887/securesmartcam-protecting-the-privacy-and-data-of

The Knight News Challenge, an international media innovation contest,
is evolving ? and will be offered three times, with three different
topics. The first challenge will be centered on networks, and will
accept applications Feb. 27 ? March 17. The Networks challenge round
seeks projects that use the best of existing software and platforms ?
those already integrated into people?s lives ? to find new ways to
convey news and information.

Aside from the merits of SecureSmartCam itself, specifically the
ObscuraCam and InformaCam sub-projects, our research and development
over the last two years on this project have extended to support an
entire range of completely open-source mobile technology for Android
developments, the benefits of which extend far beyond our own project
itself. There are already many other organizations, projects, and apps
(both commercial and non) that have incorporated our technology into
their own solutions, not to mention the hundreds of thousands of users
out there who depend on our core apps like Orbot (Tor for Android) and
Gibberbot (Secure Chat) to safeguard their day to day communication.

The work so far was largely funded by a generous private
non-governmental donor, and if you look at the list of projects below,
we have put that funding to great use. If we receive this funding from
Knight (a similarly generous private donor), we will continue our work
in this modular, open manner, ensuring that the money will benefit
projects and causes far beyond our own personal vision and endeavors.

SecureSmartCam-supported Open-Source Projects

- - GnuPG for Android: OpenPGP Public/Private Key Infrastructure for
Encryption and Verification of Communications and Data
https://github.com/guardianproject/gnupg-for-android

- - SQLCipher for Android: AES-256 Symmetric Encryption Layer for SQLite
Mobile Database. SQLCipher is also available for many other platforms.
https://github.com/sqlcipher/android-database-sqlcipher

- -  IOCipher for Android (or any mobile platform): Encrypted filesystem
built upon SQLCipher that works for any application without requiring
root or custom device modification. This is an extension of our port
of LUKS for Android, encrypted disk partition system.
https://github.com/guardianproject/iocipher

- -  FFMPEG for Android (with Video Redaction Filter): a build system
and patches for compiling FFMPEG for Android, with support for custom
features to enable video privacy controls
https://github.com/guardianproject/android-ffmpeg

- -  Jpeg Redaction Library: a generic library for redacting visual and
metadata information from JPEG images without needing to decode them.
Very important for limited memory mobile devices!
https://github.com/asenior/Jpeg-Redaction-Library

- -  NoteCipher for Android: Simple secure text, photo and video storage
app for Android, built upon SQLCipher
https://github.com/guardianproject/notepadbot

- - SSCXfer for Android: Anonymous, Proxied, Secure Video (or any file)
Uploader (based on Vidiom open-source project) over Tor to YouTube,
VideoBin.org and other sites. By extension, this project also supports
our core work on Orbot, the Tor for Android application with hundreds
of thousands of users worldwide.
https://github.com/guardianproject/sscxfer/

In the end, the approximately $300,000 of grant support we are
seeking, is nothing compared to the millions of dollars in funding
poured into closed-source mobile startups, who not only by a large
majority fail, but also rarely share the components of their work in a
way that moves everyone forward.

What we need you to do is, go to our SecureSmartCam Proposal on the
Knight News Challenge Tumblr, and ?like?, comment, reblog or otherwise
show your support for it, in as a public and visible a manner as
possible. If you have concerns or questions, please post them to the
Tumblr, and our team will reply to you there. This is open-source
research after all, and don?t claim to have all the answers, but we do
need your support to get there.

Link:
http://newschallenge.tumblr.com/post/19436756887/securesmartcam-protecting-the-privacy-and-data-of
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