A Saudi Arabia Telecom's Surveillance Pitch (2013)
Shameless self-promotion, as this article is one of several that inspired me to work on this.<p>I have been secretly working for several years on a drop-in iOS technology based on the latest peer-reviewed crypto research, pinned certificates, PFS, and implemented in a safe language that doesn&#x27;t buffer overflow.<p>It&#x27;s invitation-only right now but many customers are running it in production.  We have to position it as a performance technology (and it&#x27;s very very fast) since security doesn&#x27;t make sales.  But my personal goal is to Make Things Dark Again™.<p>Unfortunately the hardest part of security work is funding it–performance and business concerns drive a lot of the conversations which limit how much time is left to work on making bulletproof transport security dead simple for app developers.  And it needs to be dead simple to get deployed in enough apps to protect the average user from pervasive surveillance.<p>But if you believe in the problem, and your employer can create a budget for the problem, I would love to chat with you (email in my profile).  There is still time to rewrite the future and keep totalitarian governments out of our communication.  We just have to decide we actually care enough to make it happen.