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How to secure your smartphone
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A headset called TopSec Mobile offered by the Berlin company Rohde & Schwarz SIT promises to protect calls made over smart phones from eavesdropping - provided the other party is using the same headset. A safer alternative to widespread messenger services like Whatsapp or iMessage is an app called Hoccer XO by the Berlin-based Hoccer. The apps RedPhone and TextSecure by America’s Whisper Systems can encrypt all audio and text communications.