TTFA2: Mobile Phone Security and Android Apps

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Mobile Phone Security and Android Apps

In this chapter you will learn;

  • Some background info on Mobile Phones and security
  • How to send encrypted SMS messages on an Android phone
  • How to set up a VPN on an Android phone to allow safer browsing

Background Info

Background info on mobile phones and security - maybe adapted from here - http://en.flossmanuals.net/basic-internet-security/ch047_understanding-risks/

Android

The Guardian project are doing really useful work on Android platform

Encrypted SMS Messages

TextSecure or Gibberbot or both

Setting up a VPN on an Android Phone

some info and a link to step by step instructions - http://en.flossmanuals.net/basic-internet-security/ch050_vpn-on-android/

Encrypted Web browsing

Orbot & Orweb - These two apps really go hand in hand, Orbot is the Android port of Tor a tool for anonymous online activity (whilst tor is not completely secure it's still a lot better than nothing) and Orweb is a browser made for it by The Guardian Project which is automatically configured to use Tor.

Blurred faces camera app

ObscuraCam is a visual privacy app for photo and video, that gives you the power to better protect the identity of those captures in your photos, before you post them online. ObscuraCam will automatically detect faces that you can pixelate, redact (blackout) or protect with funny nose and glasses.

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