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Ultra-secure Blackphone to run Android-based PrivatOS

Geeksphone and Silent Circle announced an Android-derived, ultra-secure Blackphone, and images of Geeksphone’s Intel-based Revolution phone broke cover. The recommended reforms to National Security Agency snooping announced by President Obama today are not likely to stem the recent trend of tech products promising to keep data secure from prying governmental agencies. The latest, greatest device promising to NSA-proof your digital life is the Blackphone, a collaboration between Firefox OS phone vendor Geeksphone and Silent Circle, a cryptography software development firm that counts PGP creator Phil Zimmerman (pictured at top) as its President.

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