When you buy a Blackphone you get two years’ subscription to the Silent Circle service, after which you’ll need to pay $10 a month to continue. The final part of the suite is Disconnect, which offers private browsing and VPN. It’s not the most capacious store, but should appease those who get a little paranoid about exactly which eyes might be on their data with more popular services like Dropbox. Silent Contacts is a phone book app designed to stop malware from skimming through your contacts and SpiderOak gives you 5GB of ultra-secure cloud storage. These two are here to avoid having your communications ‘hijacked’ by other parties. Silent Text offers encrypted text messaging, again with other Silent Circle users. Silent Call offers fully encrypted peer-to-peer calls when used with other Silent Call users (and a Blackphone comes with a couple of one-year licenses to give to friends), and adds an extra level of encryption when used with ‘normal’ calls according to Blackphone’s spokesperson. How does the security work? The most secure elements of the Blackphone live in its custom Silent Circle apps.
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Basic file system encryption was only introduced in later versions of Android Gingerbread, after all.
It’s a hyper-secure Android phone, and given all the coverage of the Android system’s insecurity over the last couple of years, we’re almost surprised it took this long. We took a look at the Blackphone at MWC 2014 to see how it works, and find out why it exists.īlackphone – What is it and what does it do? And unlike Samsung Knox, it’s security designed for the normal person, not just high-flying business types who need to hook into corporate networks. The Blackphone is an Android mobile phone whose highest priority is security. The Blackphone puts privacy and security ahead of flashy features
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