{"id":12443,"date":"2014-10-05T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2014-10-05T16:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=12443"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:04:45","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:04:45","slug":"your-iphone-can-finally-make-free-encrypted-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/your-iphone-can-finally-make-free-encrypted-calls","title":{"rendered":"Your iPhone Can Finally Make Free, Encrypted Calls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/author\/andygreenberg\/\" rel=\"author\">Andy Greenberg<\/a> \u2014 Wired<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re making a phone call with your iPhone, you used to have two options: Accept the notion that any wiretapper, hacker or spook can listen in on your conversations, or pay for pricey voice encryption software.<\/p>\n<p>As of today there\u2019s a third option: The open source software group known as Open Whisper Systems has <a href=\"https:\/\/whispersystems.org\/blog\/signal\/\">announced<\/a> the release of Signal, the first iOS app designed to enable easy, strongly encrypted voice calls for free. \u201cWe\u2019re trying to make private communications as available and accessible as any normal phone call,\u201d says Moxie Marlinspike, the hacker security researcher who founded the nonprofit software group. Later this summer, he adds, encrypted text messaging will be integrated into Signal, too, to create what he describes as a \u201csingle, unified app for free, easy, open source, private voice and text messaging.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2014\/07\/free-encrypted-calling-finally-comes-to-the-iphone\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Andy Greenberg \u2014 Wired If you\u2019re making a phone call with your iPhone, you used to have two options: Accept the notion that any wiretapper, hacker or spook can listen in on your conversations, or pay for pricey voice encryption software. As of today there\u2019s a third option: The open source software group known [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12443"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64896,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12443\/revisions\/64896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}