Mobile Security Risks: A Primer for Activists, Journalists and Rights Defenders

Safer Mobile designed this primer as part of its goal to "assist activists, human rights defenders, and journalists assess the mobile communications risks that they face, and then use appropriate counter measure in order to organise, report, and work with mobile devices more safely."  The online overview is designed to help users evaluate their level of risk in regard to mobile communications. The sections are divided and titled:

• General Mobile Risks
• Voice: This Call May Be Recorded
• SMS/Text Messaging
• Web Browsing
• Photos, Video, and MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service)
• Mobile Email
• Storing Data
• Security for Smartphones

Icons displayed on the webpage show the reader techniques that can be implemented to increase safety while using mobile devices and also denote particularly sensitive areas for mobile security.