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BlackPhone, In Wake of Gemalto Fallout, Receives $50 Million In Funding

Posted by timothy on from the small-steps dept.

An anonymous reader writes The BlackPhone, a $600-plus encrypted Android handset designed to keep the prying eyes of criminals and the government out of mobile communications, is now fully owned by Silent Circle thanks to the company raking in investment cash. Terms of the buyout deal with Spanish smartphone maker Geeksphone, the phone's hardware manufacturer, were not disclosed. Silent Circle said Thursday that it has raised $50 million and plans on showing off an encrypted 'enterprise privacy ecosystem' at World Mobile Congress next week. A BlackPhone tablet is on the way, too.

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  1. Great, fully owned by Silent Circle by viperidaenz · · Score: 3, Informative

    A company with offices in USA, under the jurisdiction of the FBI's NSL's

    1. Re: Great, fully owned by Silent Circle by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      Look up crypto ag. Switzerland can easily be buLlied.

  2. Re: What *is* their market? by bsDaemon · · Score: 3, Informative

    End to end encrypted communications and the concept of circle of trust. The original creator of PGP is involved, but this product seems to be much easier to operate (although they still haven't fixed the problem of me convincing friends or family to also want one, therefor justifying my purchase as a personal device. They are therefor the BlackBerry of the Android world)