Saturday, October 1, 2011

A Top-Secret Secure Smartphone For The NSA

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National Security Agency Is Building a Top-Secret Secure Smartphone -- Popular Science

For all the amazing technology developed by and for American defense and intelligence agencies, the government’s spooks are apparently lagging way behind in one key area: Smartphones. That means no mobile email or Angry Birds for our nation’s spy corps. One NSA agent is trying to change that.

At a security conference in Florida, Reuters got some details on a top-secret smartphone project at the National Security Agency. Project leader Troy Lange is developing special software that turns an everyday, commercially available smartphone into a tool with top secret access. And he wants every employee in the Defense Department and intelligence agencies to have one.

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My Comment: LOL .... as if hackers are going to be intimidated by this "Top-Secret secure smartphone". If anything .... they now feel challenged.

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