Researchers create app to secretly hide your encrypted data from authorities - Meet DroidStealth

02/09/2015 - 00:00

  By <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/Author/2823">Darren Pauli</a> -<br><br>Dutch researchers have developed an Android app for dissidents and crims-on-the-go, that can not only protect sensitive data behind encryption but make a phone appear as if it has nothing to hide. <br><br>The app was developed to pass the casual inspection a non-technical copper would give a device when looking for encrypted data that could hint at a need for deeper probes by forensics types or white hats.<br><br><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/02/09/droidstealth/">READ MORE ON THE REGISTER</a><br><br><a href="https://github.com/droidstealth/droid-stealth">LEARN MORE ABOUT DROIDSTEALTH ON GITHUB</a><br><br>Ref: A Self-Compiling Android Data Obfuscation Tool. <a href="http://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.01625v1.pdf">arXiv: 1502.01625v1</a> [cs.CR] 5 Feb 2015