John McAfee (John McAfee), the founder of antivirus company McAfee, presented the first public prototype of a smartphone called the “John McAfee Privacy Phone”. The details he shared with the journalists of NewsWeek.
According to McAfee, the world’s first really “private smartphone” and also the most protected from hacking smartphone ever produced. Android is created in cooperation with the MGT company specializing in cyber security. It will cost 1100 dollars.
The smartphone has physical switches that allow you hardware to disconnect the battery, Wi-Fi antenna and Bluetooth, geolocation, camera, and microphone. Has a built-in anonymizer for web search. The smartphone will be able to recognize it and not give a connect to so-called IMSI catchers like Stingray.
As noted by McAfee, the device will be “light years” ahead of Blackphone and other phones pretending to be safe. Work on the second generation has already begun, it will be available in the summer of 2018.