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‘People are getting it, suddenly realizing mobile is not secure’

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Drew Zahn

Americans worried about National Security Agency surveillance are flocking to alternative technology providers and apps that will actually encrypt their phone calls, according to a Fox News report.

“Sales of online apps to encrypt cell calls are soaring,” reports Fox News correspondent David Lee Miller. “For as little as a few dollars a month there are now at least half a dozen companies such as Silent Circle and Seecrypt selling apps, making it difficult if not impossible for the government or anyone else to monitor your private communication.”

Miller notes both the sending and receiving cell phones need the app for the call to remain secure.

Michael Janke, CEO of Silent Circle boasted to Fox News that the encryption service his company runs would take “all of the world’s supercomputers put together 44 years to break the encryption of 1 message.”

Harvey Boulter, chairman of Seecrypt, revealed his company is following another trend: alternative technology providers locating overseas to avoid the reach of the NSA.

“All of our developers are based in South Africa,” Boulter said, “so we aren’t subject to the laws of the United States or the Patriot Act.”

The push for privacy has been enflamed by interviews and documents produced by whistleblower Edward Snowden, a former information technology specialist contracted to work for the NSA, who claimed the intelligence agency has the ability to “wiretap anyone from you or your accountant to a federal judge to even the president.”

Boulter told Fox Business in a separate interview that subscribers to his company’s app doubled in 24 hours after news of the NSA surveillance broke. The cost of his app: after an introductory free trial period, three dollars per month.

“People are getting it,” Boulter said. “People are suddenly realizing mobile is not secure.”

The Washington Post further reported that it obtained a top-secret document on a government program in which the NSA and FBI are “tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio and video chats, photographs, e-mails, documents, and connection logs that enable analysts to track foreign targets.”

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    • TombRaider

      OH sure, a little app will sop the NSA and CIA…..retards.. :razz:

    • Room With a View

      I don’t trust anything anymore. If they want to listen in on my conversation asking my son what he wants for dinner, or calling the Dr to make an appointment – go for it – I hope the stupid government feels empowered and mighty. Talking privately can only be done face to face now. It is just a matter of rearranging your life. Still, it is a worry. If they want to make a case against you, they will.
      I am very happy that there is forgiveness of sins in Jesus as there is no forgiveness from Obama’s regime.

    • Puffnstuff

      Hey folks gotta make a living somehow. This is pure snake oil. Your loving government intercepts all information traffic after it leaves your device (pc, phone, tablet) so there is no such thing as secure for you. All data trunks pass through government systems monitoring traffic and this all happened while people were too busy with their own lives to care about anything else.

      • tk-3839

        Your correct Puff, to think some company has an app that will protect your info is just stupid. However to think terrorist would actually use techno media to converse is even more stupid since they have known about the surveillance, thats why they use courriers and pen and paper. NSA only uses our data to predict what to invest in and get rich and to prevent people who our a threat, from being elected into key positions.

    • Castro

      Seecrypt states: “All of our developers are based in South Africa,” Boulter said, “so we aren’t subject to the laws of the United States or the Patriot Act.”

      Well, I’m terrribly sorry, but this technology isn’t safe in South Africa for two reasons.

      1. The South African government has really open ties with the US government and the South African NSA and US NSA probably share information of mutual interest.

      2. Cryptography services in South Africa are deemed illegal if the cryptography company does not provide the encryption angorithyms to the relevant government departments. Section 5 of the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act 25 of 2002 (“the Act” / “ECT Act”) is hegely problematic. Basically South Africa is already an adanced Big Brother country.

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