Pentagon Personnel Now Talking on 'NSA-Proof' Smartphones

The Defense Department has rolled out supersecret smartphones for work and maybe play, made by anti-government-surveillance firm Silent Circle, according to company officials. Silent Circle, founded by a former Navy Seal and the inventor of privacy-minded PGP encryption, is known for decrying federal efforts to bug smartphones. And for its spy-resistant “blackphone.”

Apparently, troops don’t like busybodies either. As part of limited trials, U.S. military personnel are using the device, encrypted with secret code down to its hardware, to communicate “for both unclassified and classified” work, Silent Circle chairman Mike Janke told Nextgov.

In 2012, Janke, who served in the Navy’s elite special operations force, and Phil Zimmermann, creator of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP, in short), started Silent Circle as a California-based secure communications firm. The company is no longer based in the United States, ostensibly to deter U.S. law enforcement from seeking access to user records.

But that hasn’t stopped the Pentagon, a longtime Silent Circle apps customer, from buying the Android-based blackphone, which came out in 2014.

The “wild thing about it is, we’re a Swiss firm,” Janke said Monday. "Our phones aren’t produced in the U.S., but because of the fact that [DOD] can test our phone in a lab -- they can look at the code that’s open source -- they’ve been testing it for a year now and using it.”
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