Guardian Project Brings Privacy To Android

[lxskllr]

The Guardian Project is an open source initiative which aims to take advantage of Google's Android operating system to bring smartphones the same sort of security and privacy that savvy users have come to expect from laptops and desktops. Featuring capabilities like full-disk encryption, secure instant messaging, and anonymous Web browsing, the project hopes to give people better control of their personal information on mobile devices.

For years, security professionals and researchers have been advising users to encrypt everything. Data storage, communications, removable media—keep everything locked down. (As recently as two months ago, California's Supreme Court ruled that police officers can lawfully search the phones of persons they arrest.) However, this sort of security has long been unavailable for mobile devices.

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/n...e-security.ars

Take back your Constitutional rights through open source. The government may have failed you, but you can regain control through via community effort.

[nicodude]

Good idea but I can't figure it out, all that computer stuff is beyond me. Would be easier if I had rooted my phone but again that's beyond me, shame though I would like to have the security.

[lxskllr]

Good idea but I can't figure it out, all that computer stuff is beyond me. Would be easier if I had rooted my phone but again that's beyond me, shame though I would like to have the security.

It's a shame this stuff isn't easier, but it's kind of the nature of the beast. If you're observant, you can look your house over, and fairly easily determine the weak points as far as security goes. Electronic security isn't obvious, and even knowledgeable people can overlook flaws in their setup. It doesn't help that one of your greatest enemies, the government, tries to undermine your security at every step :^S