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P27 Layout 1 MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 2014 technology Encrypted Blackphone goes to war with snoopers WASHINGTON: It’s a fully encrypted used PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) standard, phone that could be carried by executives, smartphone which aims to foil snooping and former Apple cryptographic expert government officials, activists or ordinary governments, industry rivals and hackers. Jon Callas. Last year, Silent Circle halted its people. It’s also a sleek, attractive device that fits encrypted email service to avoid becom- “It’s sexy, it’s thin, it’s sleek, but it also in your pocket and can impress friends ing a target after the US government sub- solves a problem,” Janke said. “You can still and colleagues, according to its makers. poenaed the records of a similar service go to Google and browse the web, but The Blackphone is set to be released next called Lavabit. Google doesn’t know who you are. It’s a month by the secure communications “We destroyed all that data,” said Janke, high-end smartphone. The user doesn’t firm Silent Circle and the small Spanish- while adding that the company never have to know how to use or how to spell based manufacturer Geeksphone, amid a faced a subpoena. Silent Circle customers encryption.” As an added assurance to cus- fever pitch of concern over revelations include major global corporations, human tomers, the Blackphone venture is incor- about vast US surveillance of data and rights activists and even the Tibetan gov- porated in Switzerland with a Swiss data telephony. ernment in exile. Because of its work, he center and has “minimal data retention.” But Silent Circle chief executive Mike said, “almost all of the major smartphone “All we have is the user name you give Janke said his company was working on manufacturers came to us” to collaborate us and a 10-digit phone number,” he said. the handset even before last year’s revela- on a more secure smartphone. Even if the company faced a court order in tions about the wide-ranging US National Janke said Silent Circle chose to form a Switzerland, it could only hand over the Security Agency programs, leaked by for- joint venture for Blackphone with the user name. Authorities seeking more mer contractor Edward Snowden. “We did small Spanish company which recently information would need to subpoena a this because there was a problem that began making smartphones using the separate payment processing firm “and was not being solved: secure communica- Firefox operating system. The larger firms, try to match that to our users,” Janke said. tions,” Janke said in an interview in the said Janke, “want to own your soul. These Janke said there is interest in the device Silent Circle offices overlooking the companies are in the business of monetiz- worldwide, and that Blackphone has “ver- NATIONAL HARBOR: Mike Janke, CEO & Co-Founder of Silent Circle holds a typi- Potomac River just outside Washington. ing data.” bal pre-orders” from four international cal smartphone similar in styling to a new encrypted smartphone called, “The Silent Circle was formed in 2011 and in Silent Circle developed a modified or telecom carriers and 30 enterprise cus- Blackphone.” — AFP 2013 launched apps and other services “forked” version of Android called PrivatOS tomers. cern that the Blackphone would be asso- said, adding that “brute force” attacks to which allow smartphone and PC users to for the phone, which is set to be unveiled Interest in Blackphone, Janke said, sug- ciated with the US government. break encryption are rare because they send encrypted messages and videos. at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on gests “several million” will be sold within “We decided to distribute this our- are time-consuming, and that spy agen- The Blackphone is an extension of that February 24. 12 months, and some 10 million total over selves,” he said. Customers worldwide are cies generally use other means like insert- effort, says Janke, a former Navy SEAL the coming four years. He did not disclose interested “because it’s not just the NSA- ing viruses in emails or hardware that can who co-founded the firm with other ex- ‘It’s sexy, it’s thin’ where the Blackphone would be made, there are 72 countries that have some intercept messages. Because of this, Janke SEALs and Silicon Valley cryptographic The company declined to release but said there would be “neutral” partners NSA-like capabilities and they’re all spying is careful not to promise too much. He experts. detailed specifications or pricing ahead of making components and a tightly con- on us and on each other. If you’re living in said Blackphone is not a “hardened” “We offer completely encrypted, peer- the unveiling, but Janke said it will be sold trolled assembly process to ensure no Kenya or Germany or Argentina, you have device like some designed for military use. to-peer communications. We have around the world at prices lower than the backdoors are inserted. the same threats.” Even though some “There is no such thing as a completely encrypted video, encrypted text and iPhone 5S or Samsung Galaxy S4. But he Janke said the US State Department reports suggest the NSA has found ways secure phone,” he said. “Nothing is going secure VoIP (Voice-over-Internet-Protocol) maintained it would be comparable in wanted to buy some of the phones and to intercept encrypted communications, to protect you from your own behavior. calls,” Janke said. The founders include Phil terms of performance to those flagship distribute them to human rights groups Janke said his systems will be effective. But out of the box, this phone does a lot Zimmermann, who created the widely devices. It is designed as a user-friendly but that the company refused, out of con- “We know that encryption works,” he of things to protect your privacy.” — AFP Flying car spreads its wings in Slovakia ‘Prettiest and best-designed airborne automobile’ BRATISLAVA: Mankind’s primordial dream of flight is taking off with a new twist as a Slovak prototype of a flying car spreads its wings. Inspired by the dreamy books about flying by French authors Jules Verne and Antoine de Saint Exupery, Slovak designer and engineer Stefan Klein has been honing his flying machine since the early 1990s. “I got the idea to start working on a vehicle of the future at university, but honestly, who hasn’t dreamt of flying while being stuck in the traffic?” Klein said. “Flying’s in my blood-my grandfather and my father flew ultra-light air- craft and I got my pilot’s license before I was old enough to drive a car,” said Klein, who has designed cars for BMW, Volkswagen and Audi CARACAS: A person touches a cell phone app called Pocket Police in Caracas on and now teaches at the Bratislava-based Saturday. A free app for certain smartphones that works as a “panic button” in emer- Academy of Fine Arts and Design. gencies has been launched in Venezuela, one of the world’s most violent countries, a His elegant blue-and-white vehicle for two lawmaker said Saturday. — AFP is six metres (20 feet) long so it fits neatly in a parking space or a garage and tanks up at any filling station. But once it reaches an airport it Venezuela creates can unfold its wings within seconds becoming a plane. Dubbed “the world’s prettiest and BRATISLAVA: Slovak engineer Stefan Klein posing with his car models in Bratislava, Slovakia. best-designed airborne automobile so far” by Inspired by the dreamy books of French authors Jules Verne and Antoine de Saint Exupery phone ‘panic button’ US aviation magazine Flying and Inhabitat.com about flying, Slovak designer and engineer Stefan Klein has been honing his flying machine design, an innovation website, the Aeromobil on wheels since the early 1990s. —AFP CARACAS: A free app for certain smart- It could also help police in kidnapping also has the distinction of originating in flight. Once airborne, the it can reach a top craft,” SFUL president Federation Milan Ciba phones that works as a “panic button” in and murder cases, he said, since the Slovakia, the world’s largest per-capita car pro- speed of 200km/h (124 mph) and travel as far said. “Pilot/drivers will need to have both a dri- emergencies has launched in Venezuela, information “can help provide details on ducer. as 700 km (430 miles), consuming 15 litres (4 ver’s and pilot’s licence with at least 25 flying one of the world’s most violent countries, the last location of the person.” The appli- “So far there have been about twenty gallons) of petrol per hour. hours,” he added. An enthusiastic pilot himself, a lawmaker said Saturday. The “pocket cation, which was developed by Sanchez attempts to manufacture a flying car around “A combination of a car and a plane will Klein remains down to earth when looking to police” app “allows people to notify their along with a team of computer experts the globe,” the president of the Slovak Ultra always lose against the competition when we the future. “I don’t expect Aeromobil to go into families in real-time of emergencies, from two Venezuela universities-is only Light Aviation Federation, Milan Ciba, said. start comparing energy consumption,” Jan mass production, it will always be an alterna- without collapsing the Venezuelan secu- available on Blackberry devices currently. “Among them, Aeromobil appears very Lesinsky from the Slovak University of tive means of transport,” Klein said. rity system,” explained Ricardo Sanchez, a Sanchez said he hopes to make improve- viable,” he said.
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