In recent days, there are several solutions that have popped up to help us to communicate privately, such as The Guardian Project a year old, or Hemlis (meaning secrets in Swedish) a month old. Private messaging apps aren't new, apps like PGP, Wickr or iCrypt already enable users send encrypted messages to one another.
The Guardian Project is an Android solution mainly targeting the freedom fighter or journalists, like in Syria or Egypt... Giving them a tool to communicate with the “free world” without having the local secret police tracking them or their info. Hemlis is an iOS and Android solution for anybody who what’s a private communication.
Peter Sunde, co-founder of BitTorrent search engine The Pirate Bay, needs your help to create a private messaging app.
In this video (under) explaining the app's purpose, Peter Sunde references the recent PRISM scandal, the NSA program that taps into major internet companies's data and accesses user emails, photographs and other documents.
