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Is Silent Circle “US Govt Approved”?

Encrypted Blackphone goes to war with snoopers

Sunday Jan 19, 2014  |  Rob Lever for Agence France Presse

"The larger firms, said Janke, 'want to own your soul. These companies are in the business of monetizing data'."

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“We know that encryption works,” he said, adding that “brute force” attacks to break encryption are rare because they are time-consuming, and that spy agencies generally use other means like inserting viruses in emails or hardware that can intercept messages.

Because of this, Janke is careful not to promise too much. He said Blackphone is not a “hardened” device like some designed for military use.

“There is no such thing as a completely secure phone,” he said. “Nothing is going to protect you from your own behavior. But out of the box, this phone does a lot of things to protect your privacy.”

On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 2:10 PM, John Young <jya@pipeline.com> wrote:

If Apple can hack its own security then the products are backdoors.

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