...meet Blackphone, a smartphone that's been designed to enable secure, encrypted communications, private browsing and secure file-sharing.
Blackphone is unlocked and works with any GSM carrier. Performance benchmarks put it among the top performers from any manufacturer.
It has the features necessary to do all the things you need, as well as all the things you want, while maintaining your privacy and security and giving you the freedom to choose your carrier, your apps, and your location.
Kind of agree, real security is by obscurity
It's a crime for the government to investigate people without due cause. How about we start there?
Security by obscurity only gets you so far, and quite frankly only helps against skids who don't know what they're doing that just download a program and attempt to use it. Obscurity has it's uses, but it is not "real" security. You can do some fun things that do buy you time, but overall, obscurity won't protect you.
Sure. When someone states, out loud, they are going to kill, plan a bomb threat, etc, people take interest. They don't investigate your phones, they look for key info that warrants a cause to investigate.me="Mookster" url="/t/1459306/tc-blackphone-a-pro-privacy-android-based-smartphone/10_10#post_21588141"]
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It's a crime for the government to investigate people without due cause. How about we start there?
It is not officially spoken, as all companies that are "involved" are prohibited to disclose what and how their devices and/or software is accessed.
I just don't see where this mentality comes from other than looking at sensational arguments. When you factor in the man power that CSIS, NSA, and other related national security firms have access to, why on earth would, or how, could they even investigate every case? They can't, nor do. They merely screen certain content, and if the content, being text and location while also considering known threats, etc., give enough correlation to investigate upon, they will. It's no different then someone yelling out "I'm going to kill you" and then someone takes preventive action on the street. The only difference is one is in the digital field and one is physical.Originally Posted by pcfoo
Thought we had established that according to the law, no backdoor = not allowed to be imported and sold...no?
NSA = you can market it whoever you want, we access it however we want.
Oh, and the "informed" that still throw around the "crime prevention" thing, they are missing the point, totally.
In theory no one is "safer" than someone in his prison cell. That's not what we want.
The sense of safety, a very important aspect of life, should not interfere with other qualities that also form the basis for a higher quality of life.
Spying on individuals without probable causes, which is what is being done universally for more than a decade as recent revelations show, stumbles upon rights that people fought and died for.
Many, many people died for that which is taken away, and billions get aspired to. Human life and suffering is hard to quantify, but nomatter how hard you try, no matter how much crimes you prevent, it want even out the impact on society.
Lower income inequalities, increase education and social mobility (all 3 rank the US VERY low as far as developed countries go), and you will see crime declining. True crime, true terror and sense of un-safety that is everywhere, not the random premeditated rape or murder that monitoring telecoms could prevent (i.e. a very small % of crime).
Soldiers are not citizens. They willingly give away some of their citizen rights as they enlist.Originally Posted by Domino
What do you think our grandfathers fought for? What do you think was going on during the war? You think every letter that was sent was not screened for important information that soldiers would accidentally "leak" to their loved ones, etc. We fought for the protection of our nations, our freedoms, etc., but even than, you can't have safety without some levels of preventive control to protect the greater scheme of things. All of these we fought for, and had the moral structure not to abuse like other nations and individuals with psychological disorders did. Give a handgun in the hands of a trained, ethical, moral, and ethical police officer and then give it in the hands of a random untreated schizophrenic individual and tell me who is more safe? Using filters on your texts are no different. Put the power behind you and me and we'll use such to protect our country, give it in the hands of Stalin, and well, you would know what the outcome would be.