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Silent Circle & Geeksphone Join Forces To Build Blackphone: A Pro-Privacy Android-Based Smartphone

Posted January 15, 2014 12:03 PM

From TechCrunch:

As the reality of the extent and invasiveness of the security services' dragnet surveillance programs hits home, the pro-privacy movement has been cranking up its own ideas to counter spy-tech with pro-privacy tech.

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Re: Silent Circle & Geeksphone Join Forces To Build Blackphone: A Pro-Privacy Android-Based Smartphone

01/16/2014 6:05 AM

....and make themselves even easier for the NSA to identify......

The important parts of identifying where a caller is remain in the hands of the phone companies....

At the end of the day, the NSA can crack anything!! They will also be amongst the first purchasers of such equipment of course!! Maybe they even help with technology and money to help!!!

There are lots of gullible people out there, now something more for them to buy!!!

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