Quote from: AussieMitch on April 24, 2013, 04:15 pmDoes anyone have any recommendations on the best phones to buy that can handle full encryption of the operating system and data, public key or similar text message encryption and encrypted calls?This is not for anything drug-related, I'm very careful to keep that shit off my phone, I just like the idea of the police not being able to tap my phone or monitor my communications.Stay away from iOS (iPhones / iPads / iPods). Apple's prohibitive terms allow them to blacklist any app too much like theirs, and they have their own apps for that. Which they can break themselves at will, I believe, which means the gov't can do it at will too.TextSecure for Android uses the OTR protocol, which to my knowledge is secure. It's like using OTR for an IM conversation, except it takes place over text messages. You get about 60 characters per text message, FYI (the rest is used up by the encryption stuff).RedPhone is supposed to give you totally encrypted voice conversations... but I don't know if it works. I'm also unsure about whether or not it could be changed in the future to be less than secure, even without notifying users when it happens. A lot of stuff goes through or to their servers, which is usually bad. I haven't looked at the details of it though: it may be perfectly harmless, I can't tell you either way.Those are the best two options, I believe. There's also Gibberbot that supports OTR for Jabber and XMPP (google talk, etc.) services. And one or two others that I don't know off hand. In a nutshell, iOS leaves you in a bad position. Google's not exactly your friend, but Android at least has the luxury of a few options to choose from -- instead of basically none... also, if your phone isn't rooted with a custom ROM, assume all keystrokes and gestures are logged (because they could be and actually very well may be).Like I said, I'm not familiar with Blackberry phones, so I can't say about those. Don't know about modern Windows phones either. They didn't used to have anything like that, but a lot changes in 5+ years these days and all my info on them is from 5+ years ago.