SAN DIEGO: The designers of BOSS mobile have claimed to launch world’s most secure smartphone with Android 5.0 Lollipop operating system.
The BOSS Phone has been developed specifically for security and privacy, integrating Android Lollipop’s operating system with software that ensures online anonymity. The $355 (£234) phone, which has a seven-inch display, routes all of its traffic through The Onion Router, the online network that allows anonymity.
It means that users can upload photographs and videos, use applications and send emails without fear of third parties being able to listen in. David Briggs, the San Diego-based entrepreneur behind the project to develop the phone, first came up with the idea after he tried but failed to upload a YouTube video while attending his brother’s wedding in Turkey.
Access to YouTube was blocked for two months after recordings that appeared to be of leaked conversations of Turkish officials discussing Syria appeared there. Mr Briggs said that he wanted to give people the freedom to use their smartphones without restrictions.
The Onion Router, or Tor as it is also known, uses layers of encryption that can help to defend against traffic analysis.
