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The most interesting device shown at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona this week was the secure Blackphone developed by Silent Circle and Geeksphone.
The Blackphone features anonymous search, automatic disabling of non-trusted WiFi hotspots, and private texting, calling and file transfer capabilities. It's available to the general public, and bundles additional security features that apparently go beyond the basic messaging security provided by Blackberry to enterprise customers in its Blackberry Messaging (BBM) service.
US-based aerospace and defence firm Boeing also unveiled its own Black phone - not to be confused with the Silent Circle and Geeksphone Blackphone - at MWC this week, but that appears to be restricted for sale only to government security agencies and defence industry customers, and therefore likely won't be available to the public through mobile operators or in retail shops.
The Five Eyes national security agencies of the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, along with their governments' military industrial complex 'defence' contractors, clearly know that wireless and internet communications are presently insecure, if only as evidenced by their interest in the strong encryption and other security technologies embedded in Boeing's Black phone.
However, in actuality this is not least because those very same governments are conducting panoptican surveillance of the phone and internet traffic generated by everyone, including their own citizens and those of other countries all over the world. This was explosively exposed by US National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden beginning last summer and in continuing revelations this year that are only becoming more horrifying in their implications.
It's obvious that our imperial masters of the New World Order, along with their spooks and military myrmidons, don't want the secrecy of their machinations compromised by conducting their activities with reasonable openness and transparency. Instead, they seek to maintain tight security around their own communications, meanwhile conducting illegal surveillance of everyone else, and that includes you, without any regard to the rights of ordinary citizens.
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Reader Comments
However, you're right in that cellphones are really GPS tracking devices that also collect your call data, and can easily be hacked to divulge your contacts and even your phone calls in real time, without your knowledge.
The only cellphone that's safe to be around is one that's had its battery removed before its owner left home, so they'd better have simply left it.