Tag: iPhone privacy

  • Hide it Pro hides photos and videos in Android and iPhone

    Hide it Pro hides photos and videos in Android and iPhone

    Hide it Pro is a free app for Android and iPhone to hide pictures, videos, audio files and others. The app is disguised as a functional audio manager, anyone playing with your phone will not realise you have a privacy app installed, the icon looks like a music sound logo, tapping it will launch a menu to adjust the phone ring tone volume.

    When you run the app for the first time you will be asked to enter a numeric pin code or password to lock your screen, an email address can be linked to your account to reset your password if you forget it, it is not compulsory you do that. Using Hide it Pro interface you can select the files you would like to hide vanishing them from gallery view, encrypting the data with AES256-bit and password protecting everything, you can email files from inside the app or view a custom photo slideshow without having to move the photos outside the encrypted folder.

    Hide it Pro hides Android&iPhone photos
    Hide it Pro hides Android&iPhone photos

    Hide it Pro can set up a second escape password, leading the user to a different encrypted container that you can show to people if anyone discovers that you own encrypted data and are forced to reveal the password under threats, the escape password works like Truecrypt hidden container feature but I don’t know how safe this is from a thorough investigation, you just have to trust the developer did everything right.

    If you share your mobile phone with family members or work colleagues Hide it Pro will prevent them from discovering private images stored in your mobile phone, the app is self-explanatory, it can also be used to hide and lock other apps.

    Android Hide it Pro in Google Play

    iPhone Hide it Pro in iTunes

  • iPhone anonymous Internet with the Onion Browser

    iPhone anonymous Internet with the Onion Browser

    The Onion Browser is an iPhone only browser for anonymous Internet browsing using your smartphone relying onĀ  the untraceable tor proxy network to hide your real IP from websites you visit. The tor network can be slow at times due to the number of nodes relaying traffic and overall network load, for browsing without file downloads or video streaming speed should be sufficient, the Onion Browser also gets around firewalls if you are using a public Wifi access point that filters traffic and blocks websites and since communications in tor are encrypted with SSL any packet sniffers deployed by the Wifi network administrator will not be able to see what websites you visit, only that you are connected to tor.

    The app options include “Enable UA Spoofing” to fake the HTTP User Agent header sent to the websites you visit, it can be changed to iOS Safari to improve mobile website compatibility, or to a Windows 7 and Firefox string so that it will look like you are browsing using a desktop computer, “Cookies” can be set to Allow All / Block Third Party / Block All, a “New Identity” button will clears all cookies, history and cache requesting a new IP with a single tap, there is a way to set up bridges, unpublished tor proxy relays for those living in countries like China where tor is blocked by the ISP, setting up a bridge on this app takes some work, best if you can avoid having to apply them.

    iPhone Onion Broswer tor proxy
    iPhone Onion Broswer tor proxy

    I found the app lacked bookmarking but the startup page contains a list of well-known .onion sites that will take you where you want to go. For anyone concerned about built-in backdoors the Onion Browser source code can be downloaded from the open source platform GitHub along with technical details, the app will work in the iPad too.

    Note: The iPhone Onion Browser costs $1.50

    Visit iPhone Onion browser in iTunes