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• VPN trust requires free software

  8 mars, par eighthave
  VPNs have become popular and are often touted as a tool to improve privacy. While this is sometimes true, it is important to tread carefully when choosing an VPN. A good place to start is looking at which VPN providers meet the requirements for running a trustworthy VPN service. A trustworthy (...)

• New repository format for faster and smaller updates

  1er mars, par grote
  We just released version 1.16 of the official F-Droid client app for Android which includes many radical changes under the hood as well as many bug fixes for long standing issue. Read on for more details. Growing repository size As more and more apps make their way into F-Droid, the official (...)

• Donation SHIFT6mq

  9 février, par Pander
  In 2022, the German company SHIFT donated three smartphones of their model SHIFT6mq as a loan for life to F-Droid team members. This was done without asking for anything in return. However, we do want to share our experiences with the devices. The SHIFT6mq phone © SHIFT. First of all, SHIFT (...)

• Towards a reproducible F-Droid

  15 janvier, par linsui
  A common criticism directed at F-Droid is that F-Droid signs published APKs with its own keys. Using our own keys doesn’t mean insecure — we have a good track record (and keep the keys on a dedicated, air-gapped, offline machine) whilst others may not — but this does mean that our users need (...)

• Third Audit Results

  22 décembre 2022, par eighthave
  We received an audit on the new “index-v2” work in official Android client app + API (3 days) and the new front end webserver setup (1 day). There were no findings for the webserver setup, so the analysis in this post deals with the F-Droid client app. The audit was conducted by Radically Open (...)