We all store some of our most important data on our smartphones, which poses a significant privacy and security risk. Mobile devices are vulnerable to loss or theft, making encryption a crucial security measure. Small, high quality, and easily stolen mobile devices attract the attention of thieves and smugglers.
We’ll see how all these security measures can be managed with a single application.
What is the Private Lock app?
Unlike computers, mobile devices are rarely turned off. Because of this, encryption keys are an important part of your RAM (i.e. the hardware that stores the information your device needs, just as it is). In other words, almost all of the information contained within the device’s contents can be easily used by the person holding the device – which is not necessarily the case with computers since you turn your computer on and off almost every day and the information stored in memory is reset.
So much important data about you is stored on a device that you always carry with you and that is rarely switched off. Imagine all the people who could get hold of your smartphone and thus your private data. Your family and friends, yes; the police, possibly; and of course thieves. So how do you protect yourself?
Try an Android app called Private Lock. You can find this app in the F-droid software repository, which hosts open source mobile apps. This is freeware and works quite well when someone quickly grabs your device or you drop your smartphone. These sudden movements and accelerations are unusual: Taking advantage of these abnormal situations, Private Lock aims to protect your device by locking your mobile device screen.
To download the Private Lock application, you can go to the dedicated page of F-droid and download the APK file. You need to install and run this APK file that you downloaded on your device.
After a brief introduction, you will see a simple screen that you can use to test the lock screen sensitivity.
Private Lock is extremely easy to use. Any value you can give between 0 and 40 will determine the forces your device will be locked to depending on your device’s gyro sensor. In the lower circle you can see the current response value of your device’s sensor. When the circle is completely green, the app is locking your phone.
The value…