About us

Michael Rogers started the Briar project to support freedom of expression, freedom of association and the right to privacy. He has studied and built peer-to-peer systems for over a decade, contributed to Freenet and LimeWire, and is now a postdoc researcher at TU Delft.

Eleanor Saitta is a hacker, designer, artist, writer, and barbarian. She has ten years' experience as a security consultant, and makes a living and a vocation of understanding how complex systems operate and redesigning them to work, or at least fail, better.

Bernard Tyers is an independent interaction designer and user researcher. He is interested in privacy and applying user-centred design to usable security. He is a long-time supporter of the Open Rights Group, Tor and free software projects.

Ximin Luo is a software engineer by trade, interested in decentralised systems, cryptography, and network security. He is a long-time supporter of anti-censorship and free software projects, and also contributes to Tor, Debian, and Freenet.

Briar has received funding from Small Media, the Open Internet Tools Project, and Access.

To contact the team, please email contact@briarproject.org [PGP key].