Santa0205 Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 Famous guy named Jester user name here: th3j35t3r , (might be anonymous member) is giving away a spy phone which has numerous security features , like this The device comes with a subscription to ?DSecure?. To take advantage of the service DOES NOT require you to provide any identifying details about yourself. I kinda like that. DSecure is basically an encrypted VPN tunnel between your device and the internet. You can enable it to automatically kick in on any WIFI connection and with a little work make it do the same for cellular networks too. There?s also encrypted voice and encrypted SMS messaging and encrypted contacts, all three of these are protected via a central ?keystore?, that you have to login to each time your phone powers up. This is separate from the full device encryption you login to even before the bootloader finishes cycling. You?ve also got remote wipe in case you lose it, but as I said further up in this post, it?s not like anyone is going to be able to get into it if they find it lying around. It?s running a completely re-jigged kernel? ?not only that it?s a custom version of the Android platform dubbed PrivatOS. What?s really cool about this is the way it?s been built with security in mind, from the ground up. Security is inherent, and built-in at the highest and lowest possible levels, not least the built-in Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) encrypted filesystem. I?m not saying you can?t recreate many of the features of a Blackphone on a regular phone using 3rd party apps from the Google Play Store, but immediately, in doing that you are opening yourself up to malicious actors and threats in the very act of trusting multiple sources and unknown sources, which leads me to my next point? No More Google Play Services, and that?s fine with me? Now, don?t misunderstand me, I love Google, they are the true innovators of the internet. But, this comes at a price, all of Googles? products and services are inter-twined and SSO, most of Google?s services are ?free? at first glance, but make no mistake everything we do on every single Google service is tracked and analyzed by the company for marketing and ?other? purposes. I?m not tin-foiling here, its a fact. It?s the price we pay for their innovations everytime we accept a EULA, and a regular android phone is no exception. Having no Google Play Services present on the device has had no effect on what I have or have not been able to do with the phone, you can still install almost any regular Android app you like (as long as you trust it) via places like The Official Amazon App Store, or if you are brave also APKLeecherand APTOIDE or a multitude of other methods - just make sure you trust the developer and source. In this way I have not found a single thing I have not been able to do or accomplish as I could with a regular Android powered phone. All apps are also effectively sandboxed or segregated from the rest of the device and you assign individual permissions to them specifying exactly what any given app can do (if anything) with other services on the phone. This all happens at the OS level, unlike similar 3rd party solutions which are basically a bolt-on layer of security. which he describes on his website, apparently to win you tweet a hastag on twitter #JESTERSBLACKPHONE and why you should win. then he picks. more details on his twitter, and his site. check his twitter for more info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrynalyne Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 I've never understood why its such a big deal to encrypt voice and SMS when the person on the other end will not, making it rather useless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightmarE D Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 If you know anything about the man/woman, you would never say he's/she's possibly a member of Anonymous lmao He's/she's what 99% of Anonymous members wish they were. The fact they call him/her a "glory hound" and "attention ######" shows how they have no idea what they are talking about. Nobody besides him/her has a single freaking clue of his/her real identity. If he/she was what they claimed, they would have plastered their real name and face everywhere instead of picking a persona. Apparently he/she has no hacking skills at all, but not a single person has been able to dox the person and he/she has been known to take down sites like they're nothing at all. Kevin Mitnick himself asked the person to take down his site so he could look into it and see if he can figure out how they do it. He didn't fully figure it out. Unless he did and they came to an agreement about keeping it quiet, but I highly doubt that. The person has real skills that all those little Anonymous members can only dream of having FiB3R 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krome Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 wow I want one of this phone... or at least the OS so I can put it on my Z1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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