Anti-NSA Blackphone: Encrypted smartphone designed to liberate users from total surveillance — RT News
Anti-NSA Blackphone: Encrypted smartphone designed to liberate users from total surveillance — RT News:
Silent Circle – an encryption firm that has made it its mission to defy NSA snooping – is releasing what it says will be the world’s most secure smartphone.
“What we are trying to do is to make a smartphone whose whole purpose is to protect users’ privacy,” said Phil Zimmerman, a renowned cryptographer and one of Silent Circle’s founders.
Makers say that both the hardware and software of the device, dubbed the Blackphone, has been specially modified, and all communication services come pre-installed, meaning the handset has “no hooks to carriers or vendors.”
The company has partnered with Geeksphone, a niche Spanish phone manufacturer that uses the Android platform for its mobile devices.
