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Here we look at the world’s most secure smartphones— and Boeing Black - Rohit Arora

veryone carries gigabytes of personal data with Blackphone runs on a modified version them on their smartphones and tablets. If this of Android 4.4. Kitkat called Private information falls in the wrong hands, it can be OS designed by Silent Circle Edetrimental. It’s therefore essential to safeguard which is providing two-year information on smartphones. Currently, most subscription of its secure Operating Systems provide some basic level of protection, communication apps like which should be sufficient for most consumers. But Silent phone that encrypt what about more high-profile executives, like very senior the calls you make or officials in govt. and defense, or CEOs of multi-billion dollar receive, Silent text to encrypt conglomerates? Such security measures won’t be sufficient your messages, SpiderOak that provides a secure cloud for them. Let’s look at what sort of security is available for storage, private browsing and anonymous internet search ordinary consumers and high-profile executives. so no commercial entity can track your activity on web and bombard you with advertisements. Your contacts are also Smartphone Security for Consumers saved by an app called Silent contacts that safeguards them Android OS Security: Android phone users can get some to be upload on any website’s database. peace of mind by simply tweaking some of their phone’s The phone also enables a user to control the flow of settings. Tap on Encrypt phone under Encryption in data to and from the applications and services on the Security menu. This will encrypt your application data, device and in case of theft, you can remotely wipe your downloaded files, and everything else on the phone and data. Blackphone is not behind in the war of specifications will turn them into an unreadable twisted form. You must with other smartphones present in the market. The 8.3mm have a lock screen pin code set on your device as that thin phone has a 4.7 inch 720P screen, a quad-core 2GHz pin will be required in setting up the encryption. Another processor by , 1 GB RAM and 16 GB internal storage important thing you must know before encrypting your that is expandable up-to 128 GB. Blackphone is priced at device is that the only way to undo the encryption is by $629. It is available in India with an additional 15 percent factory resetting your Android device, so you all have to set tax that would make it around Rs 45,000. it up from scratch. iOS Security: Likewise, iOS users can set pass codes Boeing Black for Government agencies (simple or complex) to protect their data from breach and Another phone which is the big brother in terms of data the device can wipe off all data if 10 unsuccessful attempts protection is manufactured by Boeing, the leader in aircraft are made to unlock it. Apple products also have AES 256- manufacturing. Boeing Black is aimed to provide secure bit crypto engine built in to encrypt all data on the device networks but only to government agencies and contractors at all times. related to defence. It is not available for citizens and even If you are still among those paranoid smartphone these agencies have to sign an agreement of confidentiality users who want to go a step further with data protection that restricts them to disclose any information related to then you have alternatives to regular smartphones that the phone’s or hardware. The beyond in terms of security. They provide a secure based phone follows highest security network for the calls you make, text messages you send parameters with features like and even take care of your web activity. Boeing Black and disc encryption to store sensitive Blackphone from Geeksphone are two such products. data, a secure booting that checks the authencity of system Blackphone by Geeksphone with images on boot and above all an SilentCircle apps ecosystem in-built self-destruct feature that Blackphone is a joint effort by two technology firms known deletes all the data on device for their secure services in smartphone technology. The and turns it into nothing but a hardware is given by Geeksphone- a company founded paper-weight in case of any effort in 2009 and known for its open Android smartphones. to open its frame.

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