Mike Janke spent 14 years as a Navy Seal. He’s been around the block, so to speak. And the U.S. government’s decision to circumvent the controls in place to protect innocent citizens’ communications en masse has him scared right now. Janke, now CEO of Silent Circle, was talking about the “Summer of Snowden” revelations during a Tuesday session at RSA 2014 entitled “Mission Impossible? Building and Defending Zero-Knowledge Privacy Services.” The Privacy Advisor reports on Ethan Oberman of cloud-based synchronization and sharing service SpiderOak, Nicko van Someren, CTO of Good Technology, and Janke’s discussion of the new premium on “zero-knowledge” technology models that allow users to maintain complete control of their data access and new technological solutions for privacy.
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