Russian company Taiga Systems are developing the unhackable TaigaPhone. It is designed to provide the latest in cutting edge cyber-security to tackle the increasing global cyber threat.
The anti-surveillance device, which is currently being tested, is only targeted at business users and administrators will be able to freely switch functionality on and off.
RT reports: This is not Russia’s first foray into smartphones, with the dual-screen YotaPhone making headlines recently with its second incarnation. However, the new project will offer unparalleled, corporate-level securit, when ready. The current version is a prototype and any photos are kept in strict secret.
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Called the TaigaPhone, the phone will be manufactured by Taiga Systems, 99 percent of which belongs to Natalya Kasperskaya, owner of the InfoWatch group. The device will synergize with other tools provided by the company to its high-profile clients.
According to Izvestia daily, things like photos and work-related files, as well as phone conversations and metadata will not “leak” without the user’s consent, according to Taiga Systems co-owner Aleksey Nagorny.
“The device is entirely our own – the design, the schematics and circuitry. The phone will be manufactured in China,” he said.
The company used Android’s base for the creation of its own Taiga operating system. Inventing one from scratch was too costly and cumbersome.
But the system will also contain several levels of cyber defense, chief among them the ability to completely disable or enable select parts of the system. Nagorny mentioned the camera, as well as location services.
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