To even have the theoretical possibility of "privacy & security", both software and hardware must be fully open. And then there must be some way to check that the hardware and software you got in that box is actually the hardware from the spec, without extra chips. Those are pretty hard to accomplish.
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#12Well, this is just a splash page and says very little.
It's in partnerships with http://www.geeksphone.com/ which is FirefoxOS based. But yet the Blackphone splash has an image of a phone with Android buttons.
They claim no hooks to vendors, so if it's Android I can't imagine this is going to carry the Play store.
I'd be interested in knowing how they will secure and make private the core functionality of being a phone and sending email and text, all of which are insecure.
On that, I'd speculate that this is just pre-loaded with Silent Circle apps, and maybe will be announced as having DarkMail and a choice of RedPhone.
But... there's no info at all really, so who knows what this is.
The only problem they really have to solve is the eternal question of: Is it possible to provide real security and privacy whilst providing convenience?
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#13Secure? They're rewriting the baseband, then? Color me skeptical.
Related story here http://www.osnews.com/story/27416/The_second_operating_syste...
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#14>> "Enabling revolutionary communications"? Eh? Wouldn't "Enabling secure/private communications" be a better, albeit less grand, descriptor?
Presumably they mean that literally: enabling the type of communications you need during a political revolution.
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#15Well, this is just a splash page and says very little. It's in partnerships with http://www.geeksphone.com/ which is FirefoxOS based. But yet the Blackphone splash has an image of a phone with Android buttons. They claim no hooks to vendors, so if it's Android I can't imagine this is going to carry the Play store. I'd be interested in knowing how they will secure and make private the core functionality of being a pho…
From the video: "PrivatOS is the Android you are familiar with"
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#17For a project concerned with privacy and anonymity the news subscription form is asking way too much. Also, why is domain on .ch ?
I believe the company is Swiss.
Doesn't seem to be.
Domain name:
blackphone.ch
Holder of domain name:
Geeksphone S.L.
Geeksphone Rodrigo S
calle Manuel Silvela 1
ES-28010 Madrid
Spain
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#18> Use the apps you know and love.
Ok, so how do they stop Facebook et al from abusing our contact lists and location data as they do on existing smart phones?
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#19Completely useless web page. All wooly 'feel-good' words and no hard, concrete information. So I guess we just have to take it on trust then?
Also, their privacy policy is laughable:
We turn the logging level on our systems to log only protocol-related errors - great!
the pages on our main web site pull in javascript files from a third party. This allows our web developers and salespeople to know which pages are being looked at - so instead of keeping your own logs, you are outsourcing this to a 3rd party with worse privacy policies, and who can now aggregate your website usage with other sites.
Why didn't they just keep logging on and get rid of the 3rd party bugs?
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#20I'm weird enough to be interested in these kind of things, but the whole site is really .. just fluff. Ignoring that and focusing on the sparse details of the actual thing:
- High-End Android device
- Privacy features in the (custom) Android version
- "Secure communication builtin"
Again, I like the idea. But so far the details match CyanogenMod (with TextSecure for SMS, maybe XPrivacy on top)?