Phil Zimmermann's New Venture Will Offer Strong Privacy By Subscription

Posted by timothy on Sunday June 17, 2012 @05:39AM from the sounds-like-a-pretty-good-plan dept.

New submitter quantic_oscillation7 writes with this excerpt from the Register: "Phil Zimmermann and some of the original PGP team have joined up with former U.S. Navy SEALs to build an encrypted communications platform that should be proof against any surveillance. The company, called Silent Circle, will launch later this year, when $20 a month will buy you encrypted email, text messages, phone calls, and videoconferencing in a package that looks to be strong enough to have the NSA seriously worried. ... While software can handle most of the work, there still needs to be a small backend of servers to handle traffic. The company surveyed the state of privacy laws around the world and found that the top three choices were Switzerland, Iceland, and Canada, so they went for the one within driving distance."

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Re:They better not do the mistake of Hushmail... by isopropanol · 2012-06-17 06:22 · Score: 5, Informative

Also there's been a bill on the order paper for a few years that would require them to backdoor it, and it looks like the bill is probably going to pass this time.