Forbes.com is reporting that an independent hacker has launched an application that make your android phone wiretap-proof! So if you are worried about the NSA, the FBI, criminals or cyberspies electronically eavedropping on your private phone calls, this may be a countermeasure.
On Tuesday, an independent hacker and security researcher who goes by the handle Moxie Marlinspike and his Pittsburgh-based startup Whisper Systems launched free public betas for two new privacy-focused programs on Google’s Android mobile platform: RedPhone, a voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) program that encrypts phone calls, and TextSecure, an app for sending and receiving encrypted text messages and scrambling the messages stored in their inbox.