Phone

Scenario- Profiling your identity and actions Surveillance

A smartphone is a small computer in your pocket, and all of the vulnerabilities mentioned throughout other sections of this guide apply. The solutions are more or less the same as those for a computer, only with different software. In most cases your smartphone will be running a version of the Android or iOS operating system. The Security in-a-box toolkit has excellent recommendations on secure mobile and smartphone usage

One major difference between a computer and a phone is that the latter always gives away its location to the cellular network. You can read more about this in Can I be anonymous whilst using my phone. Wikipedia has a useful description of various Mobile security issues. Smartphones in general require just as much attention security-wise as your computer.

From here …

• Can I be anonymous whilst using my phone
• How can I access censored websites from my phone
• How to protect your phone from virus infection
• I want to communicate securely
• Protect files and messages on my phone
• Useful apps for my phone