KPN is a service offering that allows users to call, sms and e – mail from their smartphone can encrypt. The service only works if both users have the apps for that, and probably a few euro’s per month costs.
The payment service works with apps that the user on his device turn on allows a user the traffic it can encrypt before the network goes on. The receiver can with the same apps, the data access, which the call, sms and data traffic on the network of KPN is not in sight. The service comes in June, according to KPN.
The apps for encryption are made by Silent Circle, the company behind the several months ago presented Blackphone. In a later stage KPN the Blackphone itself also sell, know the times report on the basis of its own resources. Tweakers can have that information to confirm.
KPN has an exclusive contract with Silent Circle for the versleutelingsdienst in the Netherlands and Belgium. The provider will for the apps a “similar amount” for the versleutelingsdienst going to ask; Silent Circle calls $ 10, converted 7,26 euro. The apps are available for Android and iOS. Silent Circle supports Windows Phone, KPN, especially in the business market, and actively promote, not.
It is unclear whether the service has consequences for KPN to its network ‘drainable’, such as the Agentschap Telecom providers required. “We meet all the guidelines, we sell only the service of Silent Circle”, says spokesman Maurice Piek of KPN. The Agency Telecom confirms that. “This app does not touch the obligation for providers to make their network drainable. If permission is given for the use of an ip tap is also the movement of this app overcome,” says spokesman Frans van Bergen against Tweakers.
The apps encrypt the contents of messages, but the secret services can metadata about who, when and with whom contact has still to collect, even if users of the service.
