Phil Zimmermann, who created the encryption tool Pretty Good Privacy in the 1990s, is looking at making smartphones safer as his company Silent Circle is co-developing the Blackphone.
The Blackphone comes with Kismet's open-source Smarter Wi-Fi Manager, a free tool that makes sure you don't accidentally hop on the wrong public network.
Another included Blackphone app is Disconnect's Secure Wireless virtual private network. It gives you 1GB of free VPN use per month and will protect both mobile data and Wi-Fi.
The Blackphone gives Android users something that Google hasn't yet -- per-app permission control. If you don't want Facebook to have access to the phone's GPS or camera, all it takes is one tap.
