Market For Spy-Proof Messaging Heats Up Gregory Ferenstein and Eliza Brooke - TechCrunch
go to original July 29, 2013

Now that the 4th Amendment is no longer a guarantee against broad government spying, the floodgates have opened for tech companies to give users their privacy back. Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde’s text-messaging app Heml.is already reached its funding goal, while the Skype-like Unsene platform launched its own Indiegogo campaign this month.

Heml.is - A secure messenger with a beautiful design. (Linus Olsson)

Just in case the Pirate Bay hadn’t ticked off enough people in government, Sunde wants to build a spy-proof messaging service as an alternative to text-messaging or Apple’s iMessage, which are reportedly monitored by intelligence agencies. Heml.is (“hemlis” is Swedish for “secret”), uses a security protocol known as End-to-End encryption, meaning that only the user and sender have the keys to descramble messages as they are sent over the Internet.

Unsene: Intro - Free, Secure and Private Messaging With Anyone, Anywhere! (BeUnsene)

Back in the good old U.S. of A, another secure communications platform called Unsene currently offers encrypted web messaging, video calls, and file sharing — essentially, an alternative to Skype. Once the Indiegogo campaign ends and the service opens to the public in mid-August, the plan is to expand to provide individual firewalls and a messaging system that could be used in place of email.

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