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Blackphone handsets can download and install a major software update today – ahead of the opening of an online store for privacy-focused apps for the mobes. Blackphone It's cute, it's black, it saves you from attack, it's the Blackphone The Blackphone runs its own hardened version of Android, dubbed PrivatOS, on custom …

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  1. LaeMing
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    if Blackphone gets big it'll give government flunkies an apoplexy

    If they could guarentee that, absolutely everyone would want one. Worth it just on the off-chance!

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    1. Blahman
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      Re: if Blackphone gets big it'll give government flunkies an apoplexy

      If Blackphone gets big, all the guvment flunkies will have one, while at the same time denouncing its existence.

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    2. oolor
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      Mushroom

      Re: if Blackphone gets big it'll give government flunkies an apoplexy

      One? I want at least five.

      It'll blow their minds literally, not figuratively.

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  2. verloc

    Stay alert citizens

    "we can neither confirm or deny the existence of the blackphone.

    . . - sent from my blackphone"

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    NSA-proof phone sold by a US company...

    They'll face Lavabit's choice of bending or folding.

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    1. captain veg Silver badge
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      Re: bending or folding

      Shirly that's the iPhone 6?

      -A.

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  4. Anonymous Coward
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    I'd be more paranoid with such a phone. A phone which is aimed at people with something to hide is the ideal phone for the government to backdoor.

    There's nothing worse than encryption that doesn't work.

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