"Blackphone" said to be "a super-secure nsa-proof"

[Zenaan Harkness]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 12:03:36PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> On 7/24/14, Ulex Europae <europus at gmail.com> wrote:
> > At 05:25 AM 1/17/2014, Jim Bell forwarded:
> >><<http:///>http://www.yahoo.com/tech/startup-launching-a-super-secure-nsa-proof-73511096050.html>
> 
> NSA-proof?
> 
> Is that even possible unless you:
> 1) personally pick up your phone off the factory
> floor production line at random?
> 
> and
> 2) Reproducibly build all software on the device
> and upload your build?
> 
> and
> 3) the hardware completely isolates the baseband
> processor and its os (unless there's a deployable
> FLOSS baseband stack I'm not aware of)?
> 
> and that's just for starters.

Are we getting any closer to a mobile phone baseband stack?