I have had every generation of iPhone since they came out. They have really become incredibly useful tools to make day to day life easier. But we tend to rely on them for everything ,including doing our online shopping (hhuuuhhhh hhhhheeeemmm) for all kinds of ,....stuff! At any rate, is this really safe? I mean look at Android users. They have the freedom and applications to set up efficient security. Or at least have the ability to customize and download software to take these extra security measures. With apple, we don't unless we jailbreak our phones to run a different OS and abandoning our iOS with all of its protection. Apple has a strangle hold on its users. While they do a great job of keeping our devices from getting sick (viruses), they also prevent us from doing A LOT of things that Android users do without effort or corner cutting. So unless you purchase a VPN or try to hook up with the VPN you have at home on your PC, you are pretty much wide open for exposure to prying eyes. We all know that because of the new generation of fear, the population has not objected when the govt told us they were going to start digging through our shit (phone calls, emails, texts etc). They are willing to sacrifice privacy for security. Well I don't like it. I am guilty of being too lax in the past. I am trying to right the ship now. So while chatting with someone from here we investigated safety/security options. What we came up with is basically TOR set up to run on iOS as well as TOR for texting. This is just an IP hiding program but also encrypts text. I don't know how fool proof it is, but it's a whole lot better than the alternative (NOTHING). So check these out if you use your phones to surf source websites or text things that you may not want someone else seeing. You carrier company has all that shit stored (i'm not sure for how long but it is there) and with a warrant, it will be used against you in a court of law. Go to the APP store and type "Covert browser" & "iTORChat" in the search bar. One at a time obviously (my apologies for the overwhelming need/desire to explain everything as if i'm talking to children. I dumb it down at work out of necessity and have gotten used to doing it all the time after 10 years working with the kinds of ppl I do.)
Both are extremely simple to use and most of you are already familiar with tor so you'll get the gist. Also, they cost money but it's literally peanuts. The browser is $2.99 and the text chat is $1.99. I think that's pretty friggen cheap considering it's your freedom we are talking about. But another thing I thought of after some dumb fuck I know used a credit card to purchase the apps. Go to any super market or pharmacy and buy an iTunes card. DON'T BE STUPID AND USE A CREDIT CARD WITH YOUR NAME ON IT ALONG WITH EVERYTHING ELSE TIED TO YOU. Prepaid gift cards guys. Easy as pie. Those of you who actually do this ,please come back to this thread and post up your thoughts. Or maybe you have an alternative option/app. Let us know. We are all in this together.