Also a procedure is to use the Clean Quit add on which eradicates all pertinent data about the
previous session. Such as browsing site inclinations, and download history.
“If you want full anonymity, you should switch to the
Orweb
browser. It's
loaded with plugins to disguise your device, gives you control over cookies,
prevents loading of Flash content and keeps no browsing history. However, it
requires the Orbot plugin and Orbot is Tor for Android, which may not be
something you wish to install.”
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phones/five-steps-to-keep-
your-android-phone-secure-1249383
By
Mayank Sharma
May
20, 2014
Mobile phones
It is vital to control communications. by encrypting SMS messages with the open source app
called Text Secure which can be located on an Android phone. In turn to send coded messages

the user must have This is because without it the user will get unencrypted messages. An app
called Text Secure will create a secure connection with receiver’s phone. By trading keys.. It will
send a message to the beneficiary who’s Text Secure will respond with a message to make a safe
connection. At this point the user will send and receive encrypted messages.
To keep your calls safe you can use free Red Phone app for free, which makes encrypted
calls over the internet. There's also Silent Phone, which is developed by Phil Zimmerman
(who gave us Open PGP for securing email and ZRTP protocol for securing VoIP calls). The
Silent Phone app works on multiple mobile platforms but comes with a $10 (about £6)
subscription fee. Both these solutions create encrypted calls. However the person at the
other end of the line must be using the same app.
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secure-1249383/2By
Mayank Sharma
May 20, 2014
Mobile phones
Android Privacy Guard app which encodes email messages on the OS makes an open source
application called Open PGP. The K-9 email app works along with APG. First start K-9 and
connect to email server, start APG ,press menu button, to manage private keys and public keys
appear, import
APG from the desktop then K-9 displays choices to sign and encrypt messages in
a current email. It also can take emails and decrypt them. Open Chat Secure encrypts messages
by enabling secure chat sessions with other people over popular sites like Google Talk and
Facebook. Lock up your phone to be safe to keep things private use Screen Locker to lock the
screen. This app debilitates all kinds of inputs and stops others to see what is on the screen. To
unlock the phone use a preset strategy. Another method is using Privacy Master Free which stops
admittance to apps and keeps apps from starting, block the task manager and USB contacts.

AppLocker app feature is to create locked profiles, can randomly rearrange the numeric
keyboard to keep other people from figuring out the password by watching your fingers.
The last way to secure an Android phone is to encrypt information on both ends so data becomes
intelligible without appropriate decryption keys.Be sure to back up data securely before
beginning the process and do not stop the procedureor all data is lost and the phone can not be
used.

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