Over the past few months, various phone companies have unveiled “ultra-secure” smartphones, ostensibly in response to growing concerns about digital privacy in the wake of allegations from former NSA analyst Edward Snowden. Now, one company is making that connection plainly obvious by nicknaming its privacy device the “Snowden Phone.”
FreedomPop, a company that sells free wireless service, is launching a phone — formally called the Private Phone — that will secure all voice calls and texts with 128-bit encryption. It also provides VPN for anonymous web browsing. Since it runs on FreedomPop’s network, which makes use of some of Sprint’s unused capacity, the company is letting users change their phone number whenever they want. Read more…
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