The smartphone has long become the main device in a person's life: it contains correspondence, calls, documents, banking applications, and personal data. But, according to Alexander Baranov, a full member of the Academy of Cryptography of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General, there is practically no truly reliable protection element in ordinary smartphones.
At the same time, according to the expert, it is possible to create a more secure device. Such solutions exist, but these are more like telephone-type devices, designed mainly for conversations. They can also use the Internet, but the main encryption occurs directly on the device itself.
Baranov noted that modern mass smartphones, which are sold for ordinary use, do not have such hardware-level protection. Even phones with encryption, which are presented on the Russian market, as a rule, still run on Android or on separate domestic operating systems.
At the same time, the expert emphasized that such systems are still often based on large open operating systems. According to him, it is a mistake to believe that an open operating system or open source software is automatically secure.
For open source software to become secure, a tremendous amount of work needs to be done, which, unfortunately, has practically not been fully implemented anywhere yet. Therefore, the phone is our assistant, but a friend of the manufacturer and an accomplice of cyber fraudsters.
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