Spy-proof your life: The 'Blackphone' and other gadgets to help battle Big Broth

[astr0144]

Spy-proof your life: The 'Blackphone' and other gadgets to help battle Big Brother.

Hi-tech company Silent Circle have opened up to Yahoo News about the snooper-proof gadget - part of a wave of new apps and gadgets built to protect our privacy from criminals - and governments.

A new hi-tech smartphone which claims to protect emails and phone calls even against the all-seeing eye of the American secret services was unveiled this week - part of a wave of new apps built to protect privacy.

The Blackphone is perhaps the ultimate object of desire for the paranoid - a modified Android phone which offers encrypted communications anywhere in the world, and protection from 'prying eyes' - designed by military experts and encryption veterans from a company, Silent Circle.

"We've been delighted by the reaction", says Silent Circle's Managing Director Toby Weir-Jones, in an interview with Yahoo News.  "The loss of privacy is expensive, for two reasons:  first of all, it's often unclear that you've lost it, because it's taken from you covertly.  And secondly, it's difficult to get privacy back after it's gone."

There are scant technical details on the Blackphone - the sleek black slab runs PrivatOS, a modified version of Android, and offers calls, texts, and video chat, but its makers are clear on who needs it: "every law-abiding citizen."

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/spy-proof-your-life--the--blackphone--and-other-gadgets-to-help-battle-big-brother-100355552.html?vp=1#O1KArH0

[robomont]

From what i understand.for the line to be secure.both parties must have one.there may be a backdoor in the software also.