Keeping Privacy and Security out of the hands of the People.
The title says it all. Though one might ask, who? Who would prefer to keep our Natural Born Right of Privacy away from us?
Security? Why surely people should have the right to be secure in their person, possessions, property and communications, no? Who would claim otherwise?
Well perhaps not openly, but, people in power, people with authority would be petrified if everyone had the same level of Privacy and Security that they themselves have. In fact they would do everything they could to try to hinder, oppressive, or even bury it. Don’t just take my word for it, ask Robert Gold.
WHO?
15 years ago American Robert Gold developed a breakthrough in wireless communications that would help people speak to one another with less interference and greater security.
Then it disappeared.
The United States Department of Defense concluded that his “invention could be a national security threat in the wrong hands” and slapped Gold’s patent application with a so-called “secrecy order” in 2002, which prevented him from discussing the technology with anyone.
James Constant, a man from California, filed a radar technology patent in 1969 for technology that could track packages, shipping containers, and components that were traveling on an assembly line. He was given a secrecy order, and it was not lifted until 1971.
Dr. Gerald F. Ross, filed a patent application for a new invention he had devised to defeat the jamming of electromagnetic transmissions at specified frequencies. It was not until June 17, 2014 (almost 37 years later) that this patent was granted. Another victim of the so-called “secrecy order”.
This is all made possible by an act many people are unaware of. It’s called the “Invention Secrecy Act” and it was written up in 1951. Under this act, patent applications on new inventions can be subject to secrecy orders. These orders can restrict their publication if government agencies believe that their disclosure would be harmful to “national security”.
The words “national security” has become an excuse and justification for the classification of a large amount of information on a variety of topics that the public is deliberately kept in the dark about.
It boggles the mind to think of what might be being kept secert in the name of national Security. Teleporters? Wireless electricity? Hyperdrives?
Now granted, a lot of these cases I mentioned were being financed through United States Government grants and therefore must fall under the rules in which they were funded, with the Government having the final say over how the discovered technology is used, or hidden. But in some cases this also happens in the private sector.
So the real question we need to anwser is this, who can be least trusted with Technology, a private individual/company or a Government. Which one has unlimited funds, which one has a monopoly, which one has the legitimate use of force?
Now in 2018 we see the front lines drawn again. Crypviser, a company located in Germany has created a Decentralized, Un-blockable, Anonymous messenger using Blockchain Technology. An instant communication platform that is just as secure and private, if not more so, than the communication network of Governments and secret serviceses. This powerful form of communication has been let out of the box, and is spreading around the globe into the hands of everyday people.
A breakthrough in Technology or just thinking outside the box?
What the company has done is harnessed Decentralization and Blockchain tech.
Being Decentralized means that there is no Central Server that can be shut down or blocked , which will ensure that the communications get through. In addition to that, there is no one point of attack, nor is there a single server storing any information on the users, in fact there IS NO information on the users, no names, no mobile numbers, no e-mail addresses, nothing. The definition of the word Anonymous.
Just stop and think about that for a minute. In todays world where your name or address or e-mail or phone number is attached to just about everything you do, own, or say, this is a breath of fresh air.
The Technology behind this is Blockchain. The company has developed a unified secure instant communication network with real end-to-end encryption and unique blockchain based authentication. Unlike the standard End -To-End models where the lack of ability to identify user’s public keys and confirm their authenticity, which allows the “man in the middle” attacks on the provider side, Crypviser has developed a blockchain-based authentication model, which allows users to truly identify and confirm each other’s public keys. This eliminates the MITM threat and any kind of manipulation attempts from the server and third parties’ sides.
No other communication platform or network is as secure as this, none.
So basically what we have here is the most secure, private, anonymous instant communication network to date. One that rivals major multibillion dollar companies IT security models, Goverment communication networks, one that Edward Snowden would be proud of.
Back to the main question, who is the least trustworthy with this technology? An organization that has a monopoly on the use of force? Or you, and me?
How would you use it ?
Can you be trusted with it ?
If history has shown us one thing, it’s that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
How much power do you have ?
Do you have the same right of Privacy and Security in your communications than Presidents and Prime Ministers do?
I for one, wholeheartedly, believe you do.
If you however, feel you cannot be trusted with this level of Security and Privacy then continue to use the Instant Messenger which you are using now, and thank you for being honest.
Though if you feel the same as I, then it is there for you.
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