I need help choosing security and cleaning software

[PDX97229]

Help! Please! I have been looking into software to keep my private information private. It's no longer possible to eliminate software requiring access to personal information unless all you want to do with your phone is make calls, and for that you don't need a Droid Maxx. I have been using my phone for about a year now and really feel the need to encrypt it & have some strong security software. I'm paranoid about storing information in the cloud since even government websites have been breached. I have checked out 360 Security, AVG, and Lookout Security. I even got as far as installing Trustgo Mobile Security but still haven't accepted their license agreement. I installed Trustgo Ad Detector and had to uninstall it because it picked up everything including my good software which made it useless. I like all the features 360 has, but worry that all the automation will kill something that I need running for my other applications. I'm also noticing that my battery is now lasting less than a day, so I know that I need to clean a bunch of things up. I'm guessing that my problem is too many apps running in the background and a good security app to replace several apps is a good place to start. Does anyone have any advice for me, or should I just go back to my old flip phone?:-\ Note: I bought a smart phone in the hope of replacing my obsolete Palm pilot which was totally secure.

 

[Rukbat]

You can encrypt the storage on your phone, but that has 2 problems:

1) If you forget the password and don't have everything backed up on a PC, you've lost it.

2) An encrypted phone still looks as if it has data - encrypted data.

CryptoSafe Pro is probably the best way to go - it'd deniable encryption. You can keep a set of passwords to harmless places - like this forum) under one password, and important ones under another password. If you're forced to give up a password, give up the harmless one. So they can log in here as you - big deal.

TruCrypt would have been better, but work on it was discontinued, and I don't know of any Android version. (The encrypted data area looked like unused storage. Again, you could give out a password that would unlock innocuous "encrypted" storage, but the important stuff would still be stored in what looked like unused space.)

Maybe someone will realize that BitLocker doesn't run on Android, and it's not deniable anyway, and resurrect TruCrypt for Android.

 

[doogald]

You can encrypt the storage on your phone, but that has 2 problems:

1) If you forget the password and don't have everything backed up on a PC, you've lost it.

The pass code to unlock your phone is the same Pin or passphrase that unlocks encryption. If you change the device Pin or password, it also changes what you use to unlock the device on booting up. I think it would be unusual to forget the pin or password.

2) An encrypted phone still looks as if it has data - encrypted data.

Well, it just looks like random noise. Somebody would need the key to discern any data. Just like a truecrypt volume would look.