Episode 879 transcript

FLOSS-879 Jonathan: [00:00:00] This week we're talking with Nathan Freitas of The Guardian Project, talking about their work with Tor and the Butter Box some things for Signal, and a whole lot more. You don't wanna miss it, so stay tuned. This is Floss Weekly, episode 879, recorded Tuesday, August the 25th. Easy like butter

It's time for FOSS Weekly. That's the show about free, libre, and open source software. I'm your host, Jonathan Bennett, and today we have a treat. We have a returning... I don't remember if it's a returning guest, at least a returning topic. I think it's the same guest. We're talking about the Guardian Project, and we've got Nathan Freitas with us, and he is the founder, the director.

He's the guy from Guardian Project. He's also the director of reality at Proof Mode. And he's been around for a while. His first open source work was back in 1996 over at UC Santa Barbara working [00:01:00] on an NSF/NASA-funded digital library project, Alexandria, a precursor to Google Maps. And a bunch of other things from doing Java at Palm to Tor, the first port of Tor to Android.

He's- Nathan's been around. He's been around the block. And we're gonna talk to him, get an update on things that the Guardian Project is doing, and I think probably just talk a bit about the state of the world, which is a little dangerous, but we're gonna, we're gonna brave it. We're gonna do it. So without any further ado, Nathan, welcome to the show.

Glad to have you here.

Nathan: Thanks so much. Yeah. Returning guest and have talked, yeah with Doc and folks in the past on- ... pre- previous incarnations. And I definitely enjoy this podcast because we can get into the weeds, and people love it, the details.

Jonathan: Absolutely.

Nathan: The packets, the patches, the- whatever you wanna talk about.

Jonathan: I reached out, yeah, for sure. I reached out to both Doc and Simon to be able to co-host today, and didn't hear back from either of them. I think they're both super busy and didn't get a chance to get back to me. [00:02:00] But

Nathan: it's- It is summer still, though.

Jonathan: Yes.

Nathan: We're s- my kids are in s- camps and things, so you know.