One of the most neglected aspects of a secure communications app is the contact list. Your contact list reveals a lot of information about someone. It show who you’re connected to and who you communicate with, either of which can be exploited in a number of ways to undermine your privacy or security. This article … Read more
This week’s theme for Cyber Security Awareness Month is “How to protect yourself online.” This is a broad topic, so we’ve chosen to focus on our specialty: phone security. Phone security can be a complicated subject, but we’ve focused on the phone security basics everyone should know, and explained a few extra things you can … Read more
We only offer SKY ECC on phones from Apple, Google, and BlackBerry. You’re no stranger to that fact. What you might not know is that over time we stop offering SKY ECC on older phones. We sunset phones not because we want to force everyone on new, shiny devices, it’s because as time passes older … Read more
And cost, and choice of OS, and quality. We’ve been asked a number of times, “Why do you use phones from Google, Apple, and BlackBerry? Couldn’t you make a secure phone yourselves? A device that you control 100%?” And the simple answer is: Sure we could but we believe making our own device wouldn’t be … Read more
In our post looking at the the secure messaging landscape, we talked about the security continuum. All security, computer and otherwise, falls somewhere along the convenience vs security continuum. At the farthest end of the continuum, we put SKY ECC and other device-based solutions. These are very secure ways to communicate, but come with trade … Read more
