Mobile Privacy Tool Goes Down Under
Announcement posted by SafeBox Solutions Ltd. 27 May 2010
The SafeBox application combines the popularity and mobility of texting with the privacy and security of modern cryptography to send and receive private SMS messages, invisible to anyone taking your mobile phone.
Irish software company SafeBox Ltd. has announced that its private SMS mobile application, SafeBox, is now available to mobile users in Australia and New Zealand.
The SafeBox application enables mobile users to send and receive private text messages within a private list of contacts without appearing in the normal messaging and phonebook folders of the phone.
The application is PIN-protected preventing its content to be seen from the outside without knowledge of the PIN. If the phone is lost, stolen or just gets in the wrong hands for a while, nobody can read the messages sent or received or even see whom they were written to.
Stories of intercepted and incriminating SMS text messages or lost phones make the celebrity gossip headlines regularly, and are countless examples of the growing necessity to protect confidential data such as SMS and contacts stored on the mobile.
“Privacy has become increasingly important, but especially in the mobile space where incidents of SMS spoofing and interception multiply.” Said Philippe Joly, CEO, SafeBox Ltd. “Our goal was to build a mobile app to efficiently address the privacy concerns in the mobile space and that is both easy to use and available to everyone around the world...in other words our goal is to become the de facto privacy tool for the mobile phone.”
The first version of SafeBox has been released for Java and Symbian phones and is in 7 languages. The company has announced that new versions supporting additional platforms and languages will be released before the summer.
Besides text messages, the SafeBox application, offers also other features such as a hidden contact list, and confidential notes.
An immediate application for SafeBox is the ability for mobile users to simply communicate by SMS in privacy, but the company is also developing a set of tools to allow Web texting become more private by allowing text messages sent from web texting or chat services to be delivered directly inside of the SafeBox application in the phone of the recipient.
Financial institutions can immediately benefit from the SafeBox application as they increasingly use SMS banking and their customers are worried about the privacy aspects of their financial information being sent as normal SMS.
The company also target Enterprises who are concerned about privacy of information being shared by SMS between their staff members.
The SafeBox application can be downloaded from the safebox.mobi website and is also available in the largest App stores in the world such as GetJar, PocketGear, Mobile2Day and SymbianGear.