Germany: Here's some phone tech to 'beat the NSA'

Описание: M/S Secusmart phone display

M/S Secusmart phone display

C/U Secusmart microchip

SOT. Dr. Hans-Christoph Quelle, Managing Director, Secusmart (in English): "It's the Chancellor's phone, everybody calls it the Chancellor Phone. This is because we sell this solution to the German government, also to other governments, but especially to the German government."

M/S Secusmart phone display

C/U Gift box on display reads 'Secret'

M/S Dr. Hans-Christoph Quelle, Managing Director, Secusmart (in English) [Upsound]: "For sure, this device beats the NSA".

M/S Secusmart phone display

SOT. Dr. Hans-Christoph Quelle, Managing Director, Secusmart (in English): "In summer the revelations of Snowden started, and they have shown that not only the mobile networks but also the fixed networks need to be protected".

M/S Fixed network phone, with Secusmart microchip

C/U Fixed network phone, with Secusmart microchip

SOT. Dr. Hans-Christoph Quelle, Managing Director, Secusmart (in English): "One year ago we thought that only mobile communication is intercepted but today we know that everything is intercepted, so this year we introduced fixed telephones which use the same crypto-technology as the mobile devices last year".

M/S Secusmart display reads "smart phones, smart privacy, smart security"

M/S Secusmart display reads "The Tap-proof Federal Security Network"

W/S Secusmart exhibition area

W/S CeBIT 2014; UK flag flying as one of this year's partners

M/S CeBIT 2014, Hannover

M/S CeBIT 2014

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Germany: Here's some phone tech to 'beat the NSA'

The spotlight fell on communications security company Secusuite's encryption appliance for the Blackberry Z10 mobile device at the CeBIT IT fair, in Hannover on Saturday.

Dr. Hans-Christoph Quelle, Managing Director of Secusmart, explained that since the Snowden revelations in 2013, it has become apparent that not only mobile networks are at risk but also fixed-line phones. His company has responded by fitting microchips which encrypt voice communication into fixed phones, in addition to adapting their server networks to protect emails. Quelle thinks that Secusmart technology is indeed a match for the US National Security Agency saying, "for sure, these devices can beat the NSA".

The German government purchased over 2,000 encryption packages from Secusmart following revelations that the NSA intercepted German Chancellor Angela Merkel's communications, earning the device the label, 'the Chancellor Phone'.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will visit the Secusmart exhibition on Monday, on the official opening day of the fair.