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Vatic Note: This is very good news for smartphone owners, and now they can even encrypt whole files and send them. Boy, I bet the feds are definitely having apoplexy. What we need even more important than that is voice conversations that can be treated the same way as well as computers for work.
I am such a ludite that I would not even know how to use a smartphone. So this is for the rest of you, who know what you are doing. I have never tried to hide, so for me its not an issue since I am doing right now the mission I was dragged here to do. And I can assure you I was literally dragged here.
Its a long story and really unbelievable, so I will spare you what happened, but suffice it to say, I did not know I was coming to where I ended up until I got here. Hows that for someone else ruling your destiny? I surrendered that day after a series of such spooky happenings resulting in my arrival to this destination. I have been surrendering and following my promptings ever since.
Meet the groundbreaking new encryption app set to revolutionize privacy and freak out the feds.
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/02/silent_circle_s_latest_app_democratizes_encryption_governments_won_t_be.single.html
By Ryan Gallagher|Posted Monday, Feb. 4, 2013, at 12:21 PM ET
Now, the company is pushing things even further—with a groundbreaking encrypted data transfer app that will enable people to send files securely from a smartphone or tablet at the touch of a button. (For now, it’s just being released for iPhones and iPads, though Android versions should come soon.)
That means photographs, videos, spreadsheets, you name it—sent scrambled from one person to another in a matter of seconds.
Until now, sending encrypted documents has been frustratingly difficult for anyone who isn’t a sophisticated technology user, requiring knowledge of how to use and install various kinds of specialist software. What Silent Circle has done is to remove these hurdles, essentially democratizing encryption.
It’s a game-changer that will almost certainly make life easier and safer for journalists, dissidents, diplomats, and companies trying to evade state surveillance or corporate espionage. Governments pushing for more snooping powers, however, will not be pleased.
Silent Circle, which charges $20 a month for its service, has no way of accessing the encrypted files because the “key” to open them is held on the users’ devices and then deleted after it has been used to open the files. Janke has also committed to making the source code of the new technology available publicly “as fast as we can,” which means its security can be independently audited by researchers.
“A few weeks ago, it was used in South Sudan to transmit a video of brutality that took place at a vehicle checkpoint. Once the recording was made, it was sent encrypted to Europe using Silent Text, and within a few minutes, it was burned off of the sender’s device. Even if authorities had arrested and searched the person who transmitted it, they would never have found the footage on the phone. Meanwhile, the film, which included location data showing exactly where it was taken, was already in safe hands thousands of miles away—without having been intercepted along the way—where it can eventually be used to build a case documenting human rights abuses.”
He believes that Silent Circle’s new product is “a huge technical advance.” In fact, he says he might not have been arrested back in 2006 “if the parties I was speaking with then had this [Silent Circle] platform when we were communicating.”
Silent Circle is pushing hard in the exact opposite direction—it has an explicit policy that it cannot and will not comply with law enforcement eavesdropping requests. Now, having come up with a way not only to easily communicate encrypted but to send files encrypted and without a trace, the company might be setting itself up for a serious confrontation with the feds. Some governments could even try to ban the technology.
One of those advantages, he says, is that “when you try to introduce a backdoor into technology, you create a major weakness that can be exploited by foreign governments, hackers, and criminal elements.”
2013-02-15 01:30:09
Source: http://vaticproject.blogspot.com/2013/02/silent-circle-new-encryption-app-set-to.html