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oh man, that hurt... if I only knew a valid point against the "I've got nothing to hide" argument as I do now...
No iOS suggestions?
No iOS suggestions?
No iOS suggestions?
If you're jailbroken (which you probably should consider if privacy is a concern), FirewallIP is the reason I still haven't switched to Android: http://yllier.webs.com/firewall.html
If you have an Android phone, I'd recommend getting an Open Source ROM (so you can verify it is secure) and removing as much proprietary software as possible. I'd also use Firefox as Chrome for Android isn't Open Source (even though Chromium, Blink, etc are).
How do you go about verifying an arbitrary app is secure?
https://silentcircle.com should have a mention too.
These are for paranoids, paranoids may not be able to read the source code and verify such things, but the fact the at least someone can certainly helps.
I remember the time, about 6 or 7 years ago when I've asked in front of the whole class to the associate professor of the security course, whether building a text messages encryption app would have been a good idea as project for the course. The answer was a smickering "only a drug dealer would be interested in such a thing". oh man, that hurt... if I only knew a valid point against the "I've got nothing to hide" arg…
Got a handy link to that or similar arguments?
No iOS suggestions?
https://mike.tig.as/onionbrowser
Silent Circle as well, closed source or not, given that one of the founders is Phil Zimmerman.
I remember the time, about 6 or 7 years ago when I've asked in front of the whole class to the associate professor of the security course, whether building a text messages encryption app would have been a good idea as project for the course. The answer was a smickering "only a drug dealer would be interested in such a thing". oh man, that hurt... if I only knew a valid point against the "I've got nothing to hide" arg…
I've got nothing to hide Got a handy link to that or similar arguments?
I remember the time, about 6 or 7 years ago when I've asked in front of the whole class to the associate professor of the security course, whether building a text messages encryption app would have been a good idea as project for the course. The answer was a smickering "only a drug dealer would be interested in such a thing". oh man, that hurt... if I only knew a valid point against the "I've got nothing to hide" arg…
I've got nothing to hide Got a handy link to that or similar arguments?
"In some countries people can be persecuted for their religious beliefs, politics or sexuality. Their text messages could potentially reveal all of the above to the government and/or someone listening in on GSM traffic [1]. Those people could use an SMS encryption app to provide them with plausible deniability or, should their local law doesn't have that notion, at least help them avoid automatic keyword detection."
[1] See, e.g., http://www.ti.bfh.ch/uploads/media/19_Vadym_Uvin.pdf.