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With support from OTF’s Internet Freedom Fund, Digital Society of Africa cultivates community development and elevates regional practitioner security skills at ConnectCon 2024.

Browser extension Mailvelope, which provides end-to-end encryption for emails, has fortified its codebase and streamlined onboarding and PGP key queries.

With CryptoSluice, researchers and network operations teams can proactively take action to detect problematic apps and protect user privacy.

IMSI catchers, or fake antennas, are a common cell phone surveillance method. The FADe project helped local NGOs in Latin America detect and document these devices.

The Shira app helps people in authoritarian contexts improve their digital security skills.

With support from OTF’s Internet Freedom Fund, Tella debuts an easy-to-use web server empowering civil society to backup their files and securely submit them to host organizations.

With support from OTF’s Internet Freedom Fund, the OpenVPN community unites to unlock faster VPN connection speeds and performance through the finalization of a data channel offload

With support from OTF’s Learning Lab, Ura Design increases web accessibility for reports from GreatFire’s IFF-funded AppleCensorship project.

The following blog post was written by ICRP researcher Ain Ghazal as a summary of their work on Censorship Resistance Systems in global VPN infrastructure.

An ICRP researcher provides a summary of their work on internet shutdowns and creation of an interactive internet shutdown dashboard.

OTF is thrilled to celebrate Ramy Raoof and his work supporting sustainable FOSS ecosystems, and congratulate him as a recipient of this year’s David Burke Distinguished Journalism Award from USAGM.

This report demonstrates how the GFW identifies and blocks seemingly random traffic, and discusses the implications of such blocking incidents.