Kickoff 2.0: protection for home devices

During last year we continuously improved our existing software and added support for the latest Raspberry Pi (version 3).  The latest upribox software (v0.7) is available on our download page, and introduces new features such as the Apate – zero config daemon. In November 2016 we received additional funding for our upribox project. Julian and…

On Blocking Trackers and Advertisement

When you surf the web a number of companies learn about your habits and personal interests including social networks, advertising networks, governmental agencies, and possibly also your Internet service provider. The Joy of Tech web comic could not have done a better job to summarize this privacy issue: Anecdotal evidence however suggests that ad blocking…

Project hardware and development set-up

The first tasks of our upribox project consisted in setting up all prerequisites for the first prototype. In order to manage software development we decided to use Gitlab. Our own private Git set-up helps to coordinate the development of our first prototype between our team of IT security and Media technology students from FH St.…