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Subject:    [ISN] Pentagon Personnel Now Talking on 'NSA-Proof' Smartphones
From:       InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date:       2015-03-31 8:50:47
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http://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2015/03/pentagon-personnel-are-talking-nsa-proof-smartphones/108820/

By Aliya Sternstein
Nextgov.com
March 30, 2015

The Defense Department has rolled out supersecret smartphones for work and 
maybe play, made by anti-government-surveillance firm Silent Circle, 
according to company officials.

Silent Circle, founded by a former Navy Seal and the inventor of 
privacy-minded PGP encryption, is known for decrying federal efforts to 
bug smartphones. And for its spy-resistant "blackphone."

Apparently, troops don't like busybodies either. As part of limited 
trials, U.S. military personnel are using the device, encrypted with 
secret code down to its hardware, to communicate "for both unclassified 
and classified" work, Silent Circle chairman Mike Janke told Nextgov.

In 2012, Janke, who served in the Navy's elite special operations force, 
and Phil Zimmermann, creator of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP, in short), 
started Silent Circle as a California-based secure communications firm. 
The company is no longer based in the United States, ostensibly to deter 
U.S. law enforcement from seeking access to user records.

[...]



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