FrontlineSMS

FrontlineSMS allows you to text message with large groups of people anywhere there is a mobile signal.

Ken Backes
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December 13, 2009

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National Security Fellow at Hoover Institution. Doing research on information sharing among interagency, gov'ts, & NGOs. Focusing on use of technology & especially social media.
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At 9:05am on April 14, 2009, Ben Whitaker said…
well, although the open source version of FLSMS is completely in the clear, we also produce end-to-end encrypted mobile messaging applications with similar ability, but with the encryption to protect the information, if required.
http://www.masabi.com/tech_encryptME.html

In most of our secure applications the purpose of the encryption is to provide secure banking or credit card payments to the latest international banking security standards, but they would be just as applicable for information exchange.

The benfit of coupling with distributed systems like FLSMS and SMS, and the low-specification phone support of FrontlineForms (the downloadable forms client for old and new phones) is that you don't need expensive smartphones, and you can set the system to work from anywhere you can send SMS.

We have a distributed system architecture that allows safe information exchange between parties via SMS where the central server, mobile network systems and any relaying systems are not a party to the data exchanged, and the vulnerabilities of the GSM A5 encryption algorithms are not an issue to data security, and the system can cope with the dissappearance of the central servers and operate islanded (quite key in most FLSMS deployments).

If you are interested in a further chat, send an email to ben@masabi.com.
At 2:43pm on April 13, 2009, Ben Whitaker said…
Hi Ken,
have you interest in confidential (encrypted) information sharing, or just open information sharing over standard GSM?
Ben
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