Posted on 09/01/2014 10:51:41 PM PDT by InMemoriam
Like many [ultra-secure phones], the CryptoPhone 500...features high-powered encryption. Les Goldsmith, the CEO of ESD America, says the phone also runs a customized or "hardened" version of Android that removes 468 vulnerabilities that his engineering team team found in the stock installation of the OS.
His mobile security team also found that the [standard] Samsung Galaxy SIII leaks data to parts unknown 80-90 times every hour.
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To show what the CryptoPhone can do that less expensive competitors cannot, he points me to a map that he and his customers have created, indicating 17 different phony cell towers known as “interceptors,” detected by the CryptoPhone 500 around the United States during the month of July alone. Interceptors look to a typical phone like an ordinary tower. Once the phone connects with the interceptor, a variety of “over-the-air” attacks become possible, from eavesdropping on calls and texts to pushing spyware to the device.
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Who is running these interceptors and what are they doing with the calls? Goldsmith says we can’t be sure, but he has his suspicions.
“What we find suspicious is that a lot of these interceptors are right on top of U.S. military bases. So we begin to wonder – are some of them U.S. government interceptors? Or are some of them Chinese interceptors?” says Goldsmith. “Whose interceptor is it? Who are they, that's listening to calls around military bases? Is it just the U.S. military, or are they foreign governments doing it?
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Whether your phone uses Android or iOS, it also has a second operating system that runs on a part of the phone called a baseband processor. The baseband processor functions as a communications middleman between the phone’s main O.S. and the cell towers.
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Remember the Dem couple that recorded Newt Gingrich’s cell conversation?
http://www.daviddfriedman.com/CCP_97/Gingrich%252fMartin%252fMcDerm.html
When Barry said, “Transparent Administration” he really meant “Transparent Public” - welcome to the New Order of Socialist States of America (NOSSA) - pronounced: Nausea!
It depends what color smoke you're using. To be safe you should use all different colors so you can demonstrate your racial inclusivity.
In accordance with PETA laws, you’ll be required to feed them a minimum number of seeds per hour. So be careful.
I went off the grid. I no longer own or use a cell phone.
Hiding in plain sight!
Anyhow some think Freepmail is secure.
I assume that every cell phone call I make and every email I send is being monitored.
https://www.blackphone.ch
You can't build a secure platform on top of Android, or iOS:
I’m highly skeptical about this device security level. Android is Linux, plus a growing layer of closed source drivers and apps that can do anything they’re instructed to do, including of course reading all your data. Don’t even think that rooting an Android device and removing all Google apps will give you any security: if a driver can read what you type/say/store/photograph (yes they can) you’re screwed. Let’s go to the point. If I wanted to spy on people, I would put eavesdropping and phoning home routines in the last place anyone could look for them: closed source device drivers! They run at highest privilege and can’t be replaced, uninstalled, examined or controlled in any way by the user. As for Google practices, they’re becoming more clear every day; here’s a good read: http://bit.ly/IIXc5t By the way, Apple and Windows competing products raise the same concerns and thus offer the same level of security: zero.
It certainly has the potential to be intercepted.
‘_______what color smoke___________.’
Just as long as the colored smoke doesn’t turn into a rainbow signifying you-know-what - - -
‘________being monitored.’
I make that assumption also, and it doesn’t stop me from calling the Royal White House couple all kinds of cutesy names - - -
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