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Hardware / Re: Anti-NSA Blackphone
« on: February 24, 2014, 10:07:56 pm »
Quote from: hppd on February 24, 2014, 07:55:23 pm
There is not much information about the specifics of how the encryption and stuff works..

They use the Silent Circle encryption software for the Blackphone if you're curious.

https://silentcircle.com/web/how-it-works/



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Hardware / Re: Anti-NSA Blackphone
« on: February 24, 2014, 02:24:13 pm »
So back to the Blackphone , today at MWC it was announced/made available for purchase. I must say the price is very disappointing, way too expensive for the hardware being used, but you're paying for the 'services' that silent circle provides.

https://www.blackphone.ch/

Now the company that designed the hardware for Blackphone was geeksphone, they released a phone called the 'Revolution' which has the capability to "Switch to the innovative B2G OS by Mozilla, or other community-developed builds" and is more reasonably priced.

http://www.geeksphone.com/

Both of these phones are sub-par from today's mainstream hardware specifications, but they come with little goodies to suffice.

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Found it on the Webs / Re: Robocop remake
« on: February 10, 2014, 11:59:44 am »
Reminds me of the company who published Sharknado. They have one coming out called 'Android Cop'  :P .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Asylum

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Found it on the Webs / Re: Shape Shifter Botwall
« on: January 23, 2014, 10:38:43 pm »
Quote from: ande on January 23, 2014, 09:11:07 pm
This is bullcrap all day long. Like the blog above said, 1000 ways around it.


No offence to OP, just to the people making the so-called new security.

None taken, I suspected that either it wouldn't last long or it had no value in the beginning. The reason i posted it was mainly due to how much funding they received in the past year and from who. Just caught my eye  :)

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Found it on the Webs / Re: Shape Shifter Botwall
« on: January 23, 2014, 03:38:55 am »
Quote from: Moiz on January 22, 2014, 05:45:59 pm
No need to say anything


just read the post


http://blog.securitee.org/?p=309

Nice read, kinda crazy how they grabbed the developer of PhantomJS  :o .

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Found it on the Webs / Shape Shifter Botwall
« on: January 22, 2014, 05:56:49 am »
Shape Security was founded in 2012. They received quite a bit of money from venture funding and Eric Schmidt, around 26 million at the moment. There weren't many rumors about products to be released by the company, until now. They recently announced the Shape Shifter to protect websites from bots by scrambling code so a bot won't see the same code more than once. I don't know much about bots and botnets, but this seems to be getting a lot of funding for what they are doing.

http://www.shapesecurity.com/

Edit: sorry if i placed this in an incorrect topic section.

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Found it on the Webs / Re: Depth Astrology: An Online Handbook
« on: January 18, 2014, 09:52:18 am »
Personally i don't like astrology, it deals with myths based on discovered stars and planets. I find Astronomy more intriguing, because it deals with the discovery of new stars, star systems and planets. It's much more factually based and adventurous.  :P

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Creative Arts / Re: The Music Thread
« on: January 18, 2014, 07:10:59 am »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoZHqykR04k#t=68

Lorn-until there is no end

trippy/art music videos are always cool  8)

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Hardware / Re: Anti-NSA Blackphone
« on: January 17, 2014, 09:19:36 am »
Quote from: lucid on January 17, 2014, 07:45:15 am
Hopefully not, but why wouldn't they when they simply just.... can.

They seem to have left Silent Circle alone.. so far. Aside from their encrypted email service as well as lavabit, Which seems to be a big fad lately.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/lavabit-encrypted-email-service-shuts-down-cant-say-why

there could be a myriad of factors in how and why they took down silent circle's email services and not the app. I suppose we can only wait to find out about Blackphone.
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Pre-ordering begins at Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, Spain. February 24, 2014

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Hardware / Re: Anti-NSA Blackphone
« on: January 17, 2014, 07:33:51 am »
Seems like Silent Circle has been working on mobile P2P encryption for sometime now, i guess this is where a lot of their funding comes from.

https://silentcircle.com/

very pricey though
Quote from: lucid on January 17, 2014, 01:52:00 am

Will probably get shut down too... Fucking pigs.

 maybe not

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Hardware / Re: Anti-NSA Blackphone
« on: January 17, 2014, 05:47:30 am »
Quote from: vezzy on January 17, 2014, 04:41:35 am
Keep in mind that this group isn't led by just any person, but Phil Zimmermann himself (creator of PGP).

It should be noted that the idea of cryptographically secure telephones is pretty old. Back in the 90s, there were some projects like ZRTP and PGPfone to establish VoIP and telephony cryptosystems, but they never caught on.

I don't know how this will fare. The fact that it's Android-based and doesn't use an OS built from scratch worries me.

From my knowledge of PGP and VoIP, it is necessary to have Wifi or other forms to connect to the internet. PGP was developed in the early 90's, but with modern day smartphones you have 3g/HSPA and 4g/HSPA+. So you have plenty of speed to use VoIP efficiently. Really the only thing holding back mainstream or more popular use of them would be government bodies who have control issues.

Also wouldn't the receiving end of the encrypted messages need to have the same software and maintain the same build as the sender ? essentially being P2P encryption.

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Hardware / Anti-NSA Blackphone
« on: January 17, 2014, 01:34:22 am »
So this is a phone that is to be released soon by Silent Circle, a company that provided encrypted email services that shutdown due to a request by the F.B.I. It runs this 'Private OS' that comes with all these apps that provides you with security. To me it looks pointless really, but what do you guys think ?

https://www.blackphone.ch/

They state
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You can make and receive secure phone calls; exchange secure texts; exchange and store secure files; have secure video chat; browse privately; and anonymize your activity through a VPN.

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Found it on the Webs / Re: Linux in gun
« on: January 17, 2014, 12:03:16 am »
Quote from: proxx on January 16, 2014, 07:19:14 pm
Lol or driver failure.

maybe the sound would go out  :P .

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Java / Re: Best version of android to develop for?
« on: January 16, 2014, 11:50:20 pm »
Ubuntu touch!

http://www.ubuntu.com/phone

I don't know much about developing, but being Ubuntu i can't imagine it being too difficult. As well as being a fairly unpopular OS it needs help.
Edit:
Apologies for being a bit off topic, by android i thought you meant mobile OS thats not apple  :P . But if you'd like to look into it i think you might find it beneficial.

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Operating System / Re: OpenBSD will shutdown if they're unable to pay bills; consider donating
« on: January 16, 2014, 11:42:41 pm »
Thanks for letting me know, i will most definitely be donating. Sad day.

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