[Ssc-dev] Fwd: FYI - Silent Circle app

[Sam Gregory]

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From: Sameer Padania <sameer.padania at opensocietyfoundations.org>
Date: Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 8:06 AM
Subject: Fwd: FYI - Silent Circle app
To: Matt McAlister <matt.mcalister at guardian.co.uk>, Francesca Silvani <
fsilvani at internews.eu>, Sam Gregory <sam at witness.org>, Bryan Nunez <
bryan at witness.org>, Claire Wardle <claire.wardle at storyful.com>


  **Hola:**

Sharing with you all given recent and not-so-recent conversations about
these issues, and InformaCam/ObscuraCam - apologies if you've seen it
already - pr were involved in it :)

 I remember Adrian Hong (Pegasus Strategies, working in closed societies)
talking about this in v sketchy terms at TED last year, but hadn't been
following this since then:

 **"According to Janke, a handful of human rights reporters in Afghanistan,
Jordan, and South Sudan have tried Silent Text’s data transfer capability
out, using it to send photos, voice recordings, videos, and PDFs securely.
It’s come in handy, he claims: A few weeks ago, it was used in South Sudan
to transmit a video of brutality that took place at a vehicle checkpoint.
Once the recording was made, it was sent encrypted to Europe using Silent
Text, and within a few minutes, it was burned off of the sender’s device.
Even if authorities had arrested and searched the person who transmitted
it, they would never have found the footage on the phone. Meanwhile, the
film, which included location data showing exactly where it was taken, was
already in safe hands thousands of miles away—without having been
intercepted along the way—where it can eventually be used to build a case
documenting human rights abuses."**


http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/02/silent_circle_s_latest_app_democratizes_encryption_governments_won_t_be.single.html

 https://silentcircle.com/

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