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Blackphone 2 Caters To the Enterprise, the Security-Minded and the Paranoid
Mark Wilson writes While much of the news coming out of MWC 2015 has been dominated by Microsoft's Lumia 640, the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge, and tablets from Sony, there's always room for something a little different. Following on from the security-focused Blackphone, Silent Circle used the Barcelona event to announce the follow-up — the Blackphone 2. The privacy-centric company has been working on the "world's first enterprise privacy platform" for some time now and the second generation Blackphone. As you would expect, there's a faster processor than before -- an 8-core beast -- as well as an upgraded 3GB RAM, a larger 5.5 inch screen and a bigger battery than before. Blackphone 2 has a $600 price tag and will be unleashed in July.
Blackphone 2 Caters To the Enterprise, the Security-Minded and the Gullible.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
Yes, it will protect you. The government will still be able to intercept and listen to your calls, data and text, but they will be encrypted and they will not be able to know what you were talking about. Expect NSA to hack Silent Circle to obtain the keys, though...
Oh and by the way, want to know if their hacking attempts were successful or not? That's easy to determine now.
Is any Blackphone service still legal to use?
You now have your answer.
Enjoy the illusion of privacy.
On the other hand, if they actually banned something, wouldn't that attract people to that service? For example, in the 1990s, PGP got a lot of attention because it was "illegal", either due to RSA patents or ITAR penalties. Now, almost nobody uses it.
One can look at Prohibition, the War on Drugs, and as of now, the gun control fight to see how well banning something works.