Private Text & Call

With the popularization of smartphones, they have become an indispensable part of our everyday life. We are used to carrying our phones everywhere for contacting friends, listening to music, watching videos, reading news and the like. Socializing is important to our daily life, and smartphones are important to socializing. Instead of face-to-face communication or phone calls, we prefer to text for it is more convenient and we don’t have to arrange an appointment with the other one. However, have you ever worried about the security of your messages? After all, cyber hacking is not a myth and peeping eyes can be everywhere. Your  private messages  may be pried from your phone or the recipients’ phones. How to solve this problem? Sending messages with CoverMe can be a favorable way to  protect your privacy . Hide messages Messages sent through CoverMe won’t appear in “Messages” on your phone. You can set passwords and dot lock for the app, even if someone looks at...

As the documents released by Edward Snowden showed us, government agencies have the ability to read the text messages of normal citizens in the U.S. and many other countries around the world. This is a major invasion of privacy and it gives the government the ability to track our movements too. But what if you say, “I don’t have anything to hide”? Fair enough, however, it is not just a matter of not having things to hide. Hackers can intercept your text messages and get information about you to sell for advertising or marketing  purposes. Then you will have to deal with annoying telemarketers bothering you with endless calls at home. One way that we can fight back against institutions gathering and using our data is to make sure we use encryption to send texts. The way  encrypted text  works, is that our message is encrypted before we send it to our recipient. Only our recipient has the decryption key to descramble the message and read it. If hackers intercept ...