Privacy services companies stand up against Big Brother

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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

“It’s 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. We’ve had a huge surge in orders,” Phil Zimmermann, CEO of Silent Circle, encrypted communications firm has told RT’s Marina Portnaya.

The start-up encrypts phone calls and texts so that users don’t leave a trail and companies that hire the company pay an annual membership of $120,000.

“We’ve created an architecture that doesn’t 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 can’t give them the keys and we can’t give them the decrypted messages. We don’t keep logs of the connections between people. So a court order can’t make us give them something we don’t have,” Zimmermann says.

http://rt.com/news/privacy-services-companies-boom-142/

[bemildred]

1. Gee, who could have predicted this? nt