Collaborate Disseminate
Dear blog readers,
I wanted to find out whether any of my blog readers might be using Silent Circle – and whether you might be interested in approaching me with your Silent Circle ID to get the conversation going?
Feel free to approach me at dancho.d… Continue reading Are You On Silent Circle?
In this podcast recorded at RSA Conference 2018, Francis Knott, VP of Business Development at Silent Circle, talks about the modern privacy landscape, and introduces Silent Circle’s Silent Phone and GoSilent products. Here’s a transcript of the p… Continue reading Protecting your business behind a shield of privacy
Silent Circle acquired Kesala, a Maryland-based hardware startup previously backed by the NSA-connected investment fund DataTribe, earlier this month. The price and terms of the acquisition are unknown. Founded by the U.S. intelligence veteran Vesh Bhatt, Kesala makes a small black box designed to encrypt and obfuscate internet traffic. Silent Circle CEO Gregg Smith describes Kesala as a “VPN and Wi-Fi hotspot the size of a matchbox” with the ability to mask user location. It can be used on servers, phones, desktops, laptops and any IoT device. The device was developed in and used by U.S. intelligence agencies before its private sector debut. “It acts like a mobile firewall,” Silent Circle chief strategy officer Joshua Konowe said. “It’s a tiny little box about the size of two tic-tac boxes. It will encrypt up to five devices. You’re encrypting all the information on the device and then it’s connecting to the internet and going out […]
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Silent Circle’s move to Switzerland in 2014 caused a huge stir. Just after Edward Snowden became a household name, the up-and-coming American tech firm boasting cybersecurity elder statesman Phil Zimmerman bolted from the Western hemisphere in the name of Swiss privacy laws and international neutrality. Three years later, Silent Circle is back in the United States. With relatively little fanfare and following millions of dollars in losses, the mobile security firm is now headquartered in Washington, D.C. It’s focusing on software security products instead of the hardware that initially earned global attention, and it’s aiming to ramp up sales to federal government as cybersecurity and IT modernization remains a focal point, CEO Gregg Smith told CyberScoop. The company recently signed partnerships with Dell and Cog Systems to that end. Among the active government customers Smith described are law enforcement units on the U.S.-Mexico border that employ Silent Circle software to guard against “the cartel’s 91 listening posts,” he said, which […]
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When you don’t keep customer data to begin with, the warrant canary is redundant. Continue reading Don’t have a canary: Why Silent Circle dropped its warrant warning page
It was a “business decision.” Really?! Was maintaining the snippet of transparency text such an onerous task that it insufferably sapped resources? Continue reading Silent Circle quietly throttles warrant canary