The truth is we live in an age of internet surveillance and data logging. This is certainly a concern among users and to tackle those issues there has been a rise in secure messaging apps. These apps focus on keeping your privacy intact by launching end-to-end encryption services. Among so many of these apps created, to choose a highly secure messaging app that will guarantee complete privacy can be hard. To help, we looked and…
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Most people use whatever keyboard comes installed on their smartphone. However, millions of users download replacement keyboards instead. Which offer better features, more customization, or a faster and better typing experience? With that in mind, these are the best keyboards for Android. The default app on your Samsung, LG or HTC smartphone probably works fine. That said, thousands of alternatives are on the app markets. Luckily, there are varieties of third-party keyboards for Android (and…
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Privacy is on many online consumers’ minds at the moment. With the constant threat of hacks, and rumours and reports of companies selling on your information to insidious third parties, many people are very mindful of what exactly they’re logging on to, and with what details. It pays to be smart in this day and age, when most major crimes are committed through the internet; and that’s not scaremongering, it’s a cold, hard fact. So…
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Mobile messaging is a convenient tool for many people across the world. We use it daily, firing messages back and forth, usually for free. Everyone’s on it, from your best friends to your Mum. But what really happens to all those millions of messages that are sent every day? And not just messages; pictures and videos are prevalent too. There’s a good chance you’ve sent or said some pretty inflammatory stuff (who hasn’t), that taken…
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I’ve just finished reading a book called ‘I Am Pilgrim’, which tells the story of a covert agent sent to Turkey in a last ditch attempt to stop a catastrophic terrorist attack on the US. Because it’s a spy thriller, there’s constant talk of the ‘secret world’, about how every phone conversation everywhere is monitored by a classified system called ‘Echelon’ and how everyone’s past lives and histories are there for the taking by hackers,…
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