BlackBerry's Priv offers a more secure Android experience
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BlackBerry wants to offer buyers another secure Android option with its Priv smartphone. The company is publishing a series of blog posts on the subject, and the latest ones offer some interesting info on how it's working to accomplish its goal.
The Priv is Android-based, but BlackBerry claims to have "performed extensive surgery under the hood to augment [the operating system's] privacy and security capabilities." First off, the phone's hardware and boot process are secured by cryptographic keys , used to "verify every layer of the device from hardware to OS ...