Ensure the privacy of your communications with these apps for Android

Since the scandal of the US Government and espionage through the different social networks and Internet platforms, there is a growing fear and feeling of surveillance whenever a is used smartphone Something that has triggered the production of applications and tools that safeguard privacy of the user with codes and encryptions that ensure the privacy of communications to prevent them from being spied on by third partiesOr at least that's what they suggest. Here are two of those applications for the Android platform, one of them focused on calls and another in the messages

RedPhone: Secure Calls

This is a tool that offers extra privacy to telephone calls A tool that allows you to create a user-to-user encryption so that only users can receive the information securely, no leaks Its use is really simple but your own system forces both users to use the app to enable call encryption to ensure privacy.

Just install it to use it in the same way as the contact book of the terminal.Thus, it presents the same list of contacts to which it is possible to call just by selecting the desired one. If the other party has the application installed, an alert message warns of the possibility of protect the call Of course, use a Internet connection to carry out this process, so it is recommended to use it through a WiFi or data network, if It has a flat fee. The application RedPhone: Secure Calls is only available for terminals Android through Google Play Mind you, it's totally free

TextSecure: Private SMS/MMS

In this case, the application focuses on the protection of text messages or SMS and in its variant, MMS or multimedia text messagesIt acts like the terminal's own messaging application, but offering features as useful as user-to-user encryption and the possibility of protect all terminal messages under a password And this is the first thing to do as soon as you start it,Create a strong password to ensure that no one else can access the application.

After that an initial screen gives the opportunity to import all messages stored in the terminal to a secure folder protected under the password before selected. Once this is done, all that remains is to choose the recipient(s) of a new message, compose it and send it , being able to also add emoticons of WhatsApp All this knowing that the content of said messages is completely secure, being able to select the padlock at the top to exchange new encryption keys, as long as the interlocutor also has this application installed on their device.And it is that generating codes between two end users comes with this need. The good thing is that just like the application to protect calls, TextSecure: Private SMS/MMS is only available for Android but completely free through Google Play