Whisper Systems, one of the more innovative Android software houses, has released a beta test edition of Whispercore, an extended version of Google Android for Nexus S and Nexus One smartphones.
The good news is that the company – which has reknowned security researcher Moxie Marlinspike at the helm – is developing versions of Whispercore for other Android devices.
Some of the central features of Whispercore include a range of security enhancements such as full disk encryption, a firewall, encrypted backups and selective permissions.
The selective permissions feature is arguably one of its more important aspects Infosecurity notes.
While the default setting on Android 3.x (Honeycomb) is to prevents apps from being downloaded from anywhere other than the official Android Market, selective permissions is billed as offering fine-grained control over what data your apps actually have access to. More
