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This was my reaction as well to Silent Circle. If the attacker can own your OS, who cares how secure the app is? Silent Circle may keep things encrypted while
by chakalakasp 13y ago
This was my reaction as well to Silent Circle. If the attacker can own your OS, who cares how secure the app is? Silent Circle may keep things encrypted while going over the fiber and the wires and the airwaves, but what comfort is that when the government can remotely turn on your mic or camera?
- rdl 13y agoThere is probably a way to use Android safely, and hopefully a way to use iOS safely -- some kind of firewalled/VPN'd network, proxying any public traffic, and periodic checks for that. You'd ideally verify each OS version before doing updates, and maybe even do some destructive teardowns. I assume NSA plans to do something similar when DOD does smartphone deployments. There's potentially the SE Android stuff, too, but that's largely orthogonal to this. However, in the corporate BYOD world, or in the consumer world, it's probably not going to work.