Mobile Privacy: Tor on the iPhone and Other Unusual Devices

Presented at DEF CON 18 (2010), July 31, 2010, 4 p.m. (50 minutes)

Mobile phones are still a proving ground for keeping the users' privacy safe. This presentation will describe the problems which are arising around the use of these technologies and how they can affect mobile users. It will propose Tor as a possible solution for some of these problems, describing its own strengths and weaknesses and the efforts developers put to implement a working port of the program on different devices, from the Chumby One to my own port for the iPhone platform. Finally, it will also describe where the development is going to protect mobile phone users privacy and let them survive their own devices.

Presenters:

• Marco Bonetti - Security Consultant at CutAway s.r.l.
  Marco Bonetti is a Computer Science engineer with a lot of passion for free and open source operating systems. Interested in privacy and security themes, he's following the emerging platforms for the protection of privacy in hostile enviroments. As he didn't find any suitable distribution for his PowerBook, he created Slackintosh: the unofficial PowerPC port of the famous Slackware Linux distribution. He's currently working as a security consultant for CutAway.

Links:

• https://defcon.org/html/defcon-18/dc-18-speakers.html#Bonetti
• https://infocon.org/cons/DEF CON/DEF CON 18/DEF CON 18 video and slides/DEF CON 18 - Marco Bonetti - Mobile Privacy - Video and Slides.mp4 (Video and Slides)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj6InQwS9g4

Similar Presentations:

• DEF CON 17 (2009) / Is your Iphone Pwned? Auditing, Attacking and Defending Mobile Devices
• AppSec USA 2013 / 2 Day Pre-Conference Training: Securing Mobile Devices & Applications Training
• Black Hat USA 2016 / Can You Trust Me Now? An Exploration into the Mobile Threat Landscape