Privacy services companies stand up against Big Brother
Encryption communication services companies are gaining momentum as public trust in US technology companies and social media networks are at an all-time low following explosive revelations by Edward Snowden
Its going crazy. You know a lot of people suspected the US government was spying on Americans. But now we have this confirmation so everybody is contacting us now. Weve had a huge surge in orders, Phil Zimmermann, CEO of Silent Circle, encrypted communications firm has told RTs Marina Portnaya.
The start-up encrypts phone calls and texts so that users dont leave a trail and companies that hire the company pay an annual membership of $120,000.
Weve created an architecture that doesnt share cryptographic keys with the servers that we control. So if the government tries to persuade us to hand over something that we might have on our servers, we cant give them the keys and we cant give them the decrypted messages. We dont keep logs of the connections between people. So a court order cant make us give them something we dont have, Zimmermann says.
http://rt.com/news/privacy-services-companies-boom-142/