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“A senior Apple Inc security expert left for a much lower-paying job at the American Civil Liberties Union this week, the latest sign of increasing activity on policy issues by Silicon Valley privacy specialists and other engineers,” Joseph Menn reports for Reuters. “Jon Callas, who led a team of hackers breaking into pre-release Apple products…
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Reading any tech news source will get you daily horror stories of hacks, viruses, compromised data, backdoor loopholes, and information breaches. These are usually compounded with two opposing groups yelling on the Internet. The first will scream that all hell has broken loose and doom is upon us, as our deepest secrets are spilled to…
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You remember the Blackphone from Silent Circle? The phone that promised to take security and privacy to the next level. Silent Circle’s first Blackphone garnered some press attention but didn’t really fly off the shelves. Now Silent Circle is teaming up with Google for the next Blackphone. Companies are starting to understand that their connected…
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“Blackphone, touted as the world’s most secure Android phone, has reportedly been hacked in less than five minutes,” Internatioanl Business Times reports. “This feat was accomplished at the recent DefCon hacking conference, by @TeamAndIRC, who are said to have obtained root access in under five minutes.” “Blackphone is the brainchild of Geeksphone and Silent Circle,…
courtesy www.theverge.com Today, manufacturer Geeksphone and security firm Silent Circle have started shipping pre-ordered sales of their security-centered smartphone, Blackphone, to consumers worldwide. Blackphone runs a highly secure build of the Google Android operating system called PrivatOS. PrivatOS offers end-to-end encryption through first-party apps like Silent Text and Silent Phone, as well as third-party virtual private…
