Blackphone - The encrypted phone finally arrives (no more spying…)
Post by: zix
Ever since NSA - Prism project was disclosed, its clear that none of the communication is secure. A Madrid-based communications firm has created the first fully secure and encrypted smartphone that lets users send and receive calls (and texts) without being vulnerable to hackers or snoopers which also includes NSA, CIA, MI6, Interpol or whatever agencies out there.
Its called the Blackphone developed by SGP Technologies(joint venture of GeeksPhone and Silent Circle), that runs an operating system named PrivatOS that promises highly secure privacy protection that means encryption for phone calls, emails, texts, and internet browsing. Credit to Phil Zimmerman, Inventor of the email encryption tool PGP and Silent Circle's Co-founder (company specializes in mobile privacy and peer-to-peer encryption) for being the lead in development of BLACKPHONE.
The smartphone is the brainchild of security and technology specialists including Phil Zimmermann, creator of PGP; Javier Aguera, co-founder of Geeksphone; Jon Callas, co-founder of PGP Inc. and CTO of Silent Circle; Rodrigo Silva-Ramos, co-founder of Geeksphone; and Mike Janke, CEO of Silent Circle and former U.S. Navy SEAL.
Blackphone provides users with everything they need to ensure privacy and control of their communications, along with all the other high-end smartphone features they have come to expect
On the hardware side thephone features a 4.7-inch LCD touchscreen, a 2GHz quad-core CPU, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of storage, 4G LTE and an 8-megapixel camera. Software included spans Silent Circle's contacts, phone and messaging apps, Blackphone's own firewall and remote wipe tools, plus others from third parties including SpiderOak's secure file storage service and Kismet's Smart Wi-Fi manager to make sure the phone's Wi-Fi chip only fires up when you're in a trusted area -- everywhere else, Wi-Fi is disabled so device-tracking wireless beacons cannot trace our location.
The Blackphone will be available worldwide in the summer costing $629 (£377) including shipping to any country. It comes with two years of service for Silent Circle (usage will cost per year after that), but is bundled with three licenses to give friends and families access to the service for one year each.
