Privacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order. Now he wants to sell you phone service—without knowing almost anything about you.
Really sounds like the back story repeating itself again with another name.
This Wired article:
Nicholas Merrill has spent his career fighting government surveillance. But he would really rather you didn’t call what he’s selling now a “burner phone.”
From Wikipedia:
Around the same time, the San Diego FBI branch had been working with a person, known by the pseudonym “Afgoo”,[4] who had been developing a “next-generation” encrypted device for use by criminal networks. The person was facing charges and cooperated with the FBI in exchange for a reduced sentence.
Oh, another Operation Trojan Shield?
Really sounds like the back story repeating itself again with another name.
This Wired article:
Nicholas Merrill has spent his career fighting government surveillance. But he would really rather you didn’t call what he’s selling now a “burner phone.”
From Wikipedia:
Around the same time, the San Diego FBI branch had been working with a person, known by the pseudonym “Afgoo”,[4] who had been developing a “next-generation” encrypted device for use by criminal networks. The person was facing charges and cooperated with the FBI in exchange for a reduced sentence.
That’s a pretty broad brush, and some serious FUD. There are a shitload of other projects at any given time that purport to do the same thing.