-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/02/2014 07:01 PM, anonymous coward wrote: > Many people use TOR or secure ways to chat on smartphones. > > The last months have reveiled how hard secret services attack our > phones. > > This leads me to the question, how secure are our smartphones at > all?
It comes down to what are you afraid of? If it is dragnet surveillance, logging, censorship and other networked-based threats, then using Orbot, ChatSecure, TextSecure, SilentCircle, RedPhone, etc, makes a lot of sense. If you are living in Turkey, and you are trying to get to Twitter, using Orbot on your phone and setting the Twitter app's proxy to localhost:8118, solves your problem. If you don't want your SMS message history logged by your telco (or a state-sponsored surveillance system), then using TextSecure or ChatSecure solves the problem as well. However, if there is any chance that you are under threat for a targeted attack, then the requirements for "secure" are many orders of magnitude higher. In this case, as others have said on the thread, using a non-baseband mobile device (like a Nexus tablet) with as open firmware as possible (replicant, omnirom), and without Google Apps/Accounts, gets your pretty far. +n -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJTPXn8AAoJEKgBGD5ps3qpc+QP/R/lg+hTZwJFY7fVVT82F9mz PhMiqU9yDcPPtbHmvDon4lOu+IzbirLaF+xzRecC9BGHh6j+lQGiiM/nCj7Aq/Jw P1aIVApPAkiAtGOrPtiAlBXM3yS5HAFY/y3M9lV7j/+JyTGISeEZMCIX2wNdub63 ZjMZDx5hLt+wmztcZYGQePPnljwpsDKGW9I7HRRXw8hI1kvROaD+5YTQF8bmrZCY oFW5JwSytF7N1h6v4ap0kwsJivQUQGiflJ6zvf0/vomFGaPU0nvQwtZxkjqQR0AR QT3y4WHOl2Wrds/4wpsLErAPO53T3wBeXgv7b1QSPMY7pMu/YJu52d6h5e/IvU2u Ujlyl0eT4s211ici/xiqL2zy6Q9ziEPv9+g1dKHbQF2Yf9Y1K/B5n0Z2VBbB6VLV z5/kROwKfGxysSiAdGI12vsbFAOvJLmzZ4MpmeP5cUSYiKk2Q7dnd6cIps02vLCl XsgcUflaDDRWIwL+TmrWd79bcnOfU5FnhrOTLybXaIKrn66Iygi4aGHF4CiDxuOm 1Q+Kls8STWSwkypFf3EjvWKbjA+1GYoQsRWnLH+a29/53D04cLTB3IDWC1mEdSMa ooTEeUh66lng7iU9bvoTFgTDfzCP4i9Bi0KaDLWUEtA/F+/xZvyxpmFPhN6AdGMj IdTh2UYlw4KGO9Dq0xnM =vWDJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
