Technology has been very beneficial to journalists and activists around the world: it gives journalists access to a wealth of data and makes it easy for them to communicate with sources without having to meet in person, while it can help activists amplify their message. But technology is also increasingly used against the same people through government surveillance and mobile spyware.
Society
Point For Help are portable cards where people can use their bodies to communicate what they need help with when they are in a place where they do not speak the language. They are designed to be intuitive, small, portable and durable. We believe they can be of help for refugees and other displaced people.
Civilsphere AI VPN
The AI VPN is a free software tool that provides users with an automatic network security assessment of their network traffic. Users can request a new OpenVPN or WireGuard VPN profile via email or Telegram, connect to it for a predefined amount of time (hours to days), and receive a full report after their VPN profile expires.
Mobile Network Traffic
In this blog post, we show how the Emergency VPN can help identify RAT infections on Android phones. The images and network traffic included in this blog post are part of the original research by Civilsphere researcher Kamila Babayeva on the Android Mischief Dataset.
Civilsphere AI VPN
The AI VPN is a free software tool that provides users with an automatic network security assessment of their network traffic. Users can request a new VPN profile via email, connect to it for a predefined amount of time (hours to days), and receive a full report after their VPN profile expires.