Guardian Project To Secure Android Phones

Are you very serious about your privacy and security? While there aren’t many (if any) cryptographically secure phones for you to buy off the shelves, but Android phones might just become able to fulfill that need for you sometime soon. The Guardian Project is planning to come up with a Guardian Android device, which would offer you an anonymous browser, encrypted email, secure voice calls and secure data sync. This could possibly be any Android-compatible device, updated with a tweaked firmware. Tweaking would probably involve the removal of certain hardware drivers, fiddling with the kernel, runtime, virtual machine, and updating (or replacing) some existing apps. If everything goes peachy keen, the end user shouldn’t notice all these tweaks, and the phone should still offer the enhanced security and privacy features. Would you be concerned enough about privacy to go down this path, or do you think that the current Android-powered phones in the market are secure enough? A video on this project is available after the jump.