The new trend for "smart" phones that emphasize privacy is coming to confirm the Privacy Phone presented by the mobile company FreedomPop in the US, the third in a row phone after Blackphone of Silent Circle and Black of Boeing which promises greater personal security data of the user.
The Privacy Phone is essentially a variation Samsung Galaxy II, in which FreedomPop has installed software that encrypts phone calls and SMS. In addition, Internet access is via virtual private networks (VPNs), where the user is anonymous on the internet and its online behavior can not be recorded by the advertising agencies.
The company announced that Privacy Phone will cost 189 dollars and will be offered with a quarter free contract, which includes unlimited calls and messages, with the charge then being set at 10 dollars per month. So it will be cheaper than it Blackphone the company's Silent Circle, which was presented at the recent Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and will be released from June with its pre-order price at 629 Euros.
Like the Privacy Phone, the Blackphone is based on a modified version of the Android operating system, which Silent Circle has named PrivatOS. Functions for encrypting calls, SMS and e-mails are built into it, while the mobile gives access to a cloud platform that can be used anonymously.
Although the Silent Circle and FreedomPop they intend their models for simple people users, η Boeing ανέπτυξε το Black έχοντας κατά νου κυρίως τα στελέχη επιχειρήσεων αλλά και κρατικών οργανισμών που διαχειρίζονται ευαίσθητα data. That's why, in addition to protection against eavesdropping, Boeing has foreseen that the smartphone will "self-destruct" when attacked by malware, in such a case deleting all stored data before turning it off.
Source: kathimerini.gr
