Wealthy people are always concerned about their phones being hacked. And following the news that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman might be behind the compromising of Amazon boss Jeff Bezos’s phone, many will conclude that the latest iPhone just isn’t good enough.

Powerful people are increasingly adopting extensively customised, hyper-secure smartphones that guarantee safety through special software. Politicians, executives and underworld bosses are turning to “unhackable phones” to keep them safe from crooks – and often from the police too.

Though similar in appearance to “bog standard” smartphones, clients pay monthly fees stretching into the thousands to keep special security software running. Spanish manufacturers BQ, for instance, claim its Aquaris X is “impenetrable”.

It has an adjusted Android operating system, coupled with a messaging system called EncroChat, which developers describe as the “electronic equivalent of a conversation between two people in an empty room”. Data can be remotely wiped from the phone and messages can be programmed to self-destruct automatically.

Sanitised Shopping Trolley’s

We appear to be going through a cleanliness fetish phase at the moment – or at least the entrepreneurs we feature are.

Here’s something you didn’t want to know (but I’m going to tell you anyway)… a new study has found that 72% of shopping trolley handles have fecal matter on them. And 50% of trolleys tested also tested positive for E.Coli bacteria. This is in the United States, but I can’t imagine the situation here is any better. 

The Americans are already doing something about it, with at least two companies marketing systems which supermarkets can use in-store to clean and sanitise the trolleys before returning them to the front line. These systems are mechanised and quite expensive. They may arrive here eventually (and someone has to negotiate those deals with the supermarkets – why not you?) but in the meantime, it seems to me that is a problem that could easily be tacked manually with some anti-bacterial spray and a cloth. 

Here’s my thought. Supermarkets are always looking for an edge over the competition. What if one of them were to publicise the potential issue with germ laden trolley handles, but tell customers there’s no need to worry at Sainsburys because trolleys are thoroughly cleaned and sanitised on site after every use? Might that give them a lead on the competition, and might this idea provide an easy-to-run business providing this valuable service to supermarkets? 

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