Silent Circle introduces the Blackphone for Greater Privacy on Smartphones
With much ado in the global arena about the privacy of a smartphone, many have been calling for greater security on their handsets. While there are tools available to help improve the security and privacy of smartphones, they're generally intended for enterprise customers. No one has had a real one- stop solution: a smartphone preconfigured for privacy that anyone can use.
That is, until now. The Blackphone is the first consumer-grade smartphone to be built explicitly for privacy. It pulls together a collection of services and software that are intended to make covering your digital assets simple-or at least more straightforward. The product of SGP Technologies, a joint venture between the cryptographic service Silent Circle and the specialty mobile hardware manufacturer Geeksphone, the Blackphone has become a worldwide phenomenon.
Blackphone is, at first glance, a fairly standard-looking Android phone, with what appears on the surface to be a vanilla installation of Android 4.4 KitKat. But in fact, its operating system is PrivatOS, which gives the user a much higher degree of control over what apps running on the phone are allowed to access and what they can do. The pre-installed applications on the phone, aside from the standard Android system apps, are all focused on keeping conversations, text messages, Internet searches, and application data privateas well as preventing the kinds of Wi-Fi attacks and data harvesting mobile devices are often vulnerable to when away from trusted networks.
As far as its functionality as a consumer device goes, Blackphone still has a few rough edges. But since the Google ecosystem of applications (Chrome, Google Play, and other Google-branded features) was carved from PrivatOS, a privacy-focused fork of KitKat, it may feel like a step backward for some Android users-and a breath of fresh air for others.
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