[guardian-dev] Blackphone

[Lee Azzarello]

Do you see the problem as Silent Circle's incorporation having been
filed in the USA or that many of the partners are American nationals?

-lee

On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Peter Villeneuve <petervnv1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree that they'll likely continue to use Tivi and just rebrand it.
> They're very good at FUD marketing and not so good at releasing their
> complete source code.
>
> More importantly, SilentCircle suffers from a major Achilles heel that will
> be difficult to overcome.
> Quite simply, they're an American company, and that means they're subject to
> National Security Letters just like Lavabit.
> Plus, the CEO is a former Navy SEAL, which in itself means nothing, but does
> hint at close ties to the "usual suspects..."
> Yes I know they have Zimmerman and Callas on board, and while I would trust
> them given their history, who's to tell me the company hasn't been
> infiltrated à la Bullrun?
> Who exactly is behind this company? Where did the millions in marketing come
> from?
>
> Perhaps I'm being overly paranoid, but to me, nowadays, security/privacy and
> US company in the same sentence sounds like an oxymoron.
>
> As usual, it all boils down to transparency and trust.
> What are other people's thoughts on this?
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 9:15 PM, ShootAKite at riseup.net
> <ShootAKite at riseup.net> wrote:
>>
>> I speculate Blackphone will be TiviPhone branded with Silent Circle
>> similar to the current Silent Circle mobile app.
>>
>> my source:
>> Existing Silent Circle app uses tiviengine
>>
>> https://github.com/SilentCircle/silent-phone-base/tree/master/silentphone/tiviengine
>> http://www.tivi.com/en/tech/voipsoftcrypt.php
>>
>> A
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