The company was co-founded by Mike Janke, a former Navy SEAL, and PhilZimmermann, the creator of Pretty Good Privacy ( PGP) and other Internet encryption for voice and data.
Speaking at the Kaspersky Lab Security Analyst Summit in Puerto Rico yesterday, President and Co-Founder PhilZimmermann emphasized that Silent Circle will never include law-enforcement access mechanisms for its products.
As it turns out, this flaw has actually existed since 1997, back when PhilZimmermann, the original developer of PGP, added the data-recovery feature as he sought to commercialize the product for corporate use, Jones points out.