Foundations of Privacy
Minimal-Knowledge Architecture
The best data privacy means never collecting the data in the first place. We go to great lengths to store the absolute minimum amount of information necessary to connect you into a call and bill you for our service.
Are there zero-knowledge architectures out there? Wouldn’t a zero-knowledge architecture be preferred? Yes, and yes. Do you have a trustworthy billionaire to foot our costs? Send us an email. In the meantime, our language is precise, pragmatic, and real.
Encrypted
The technology we use to securely connect your call is built off Jitsi’s set of performant open-source WebRTC-based video conference libraries and services, configured for further operational security and user privacy.
In regard to our user login reservation system, we believe that a pragmatic dose of paranoia is the best security policy. This should go without saying, but we’ve all heard those horror stories of companies storing passwords in plaintext. So let us be clear: if we have to store your data, it’s encrypted. It’s encrypted on YOUR side. We can’t see it now, we can’t reverse it later, and we never saw it in the first place.
Stretched, Lengthened, Salted
Ease of Use
Even an encrypted password can be vulnerable to a hacker’s toolkit. Here’s your assurance that we’re using all the standard cryptographic libraries [see here] to harden your password. Your patience is your safety: Every time you enter your password, this process will take a few seconds to complete.
Registration will take a few minutes, but then it’s easy. Just create a room for immediate or later use, then copy the invite link and send it to your contact, business partner, source, or friend. While we charge for the ability to create a room, anyone in the world can join a room they’re invited to, for free.
Our service is available for the browser as well as phone or tablet. Our anti-screencapture features are available only in our app, available for both Android and Apple.
We are Firm on our Values:
Trust Open Source
It is beautiful and important that the core of the internet is built on open source. We continue that philosophy. That means our ingredient list is transparent. The majority of our software stack is open source - especially the security components, which are not only open source but also audited by neutral third parties. The last thing you want is proprietary cryptography. There’s none of that here.
The technology we use is built off Jitsi’s set of performant open-source WebRTC-based video conference libraries and services, configured for further operational security and user privacy. Here’s a few of Jitsi’s independent security reviews from reputable third-parties. Here’s our technical documentation, stored using version control so that anyone can see what it says now, what it used to say, and track its evolution over time.
By the way, speaking of radical transparency, this website itself is also version controlled. You can find the complete history of our messaging changes here.
Demonstrate Corporate Responsibility
We do believe that it’s important to structure a company to include and empower marginalized groups starting from the foundations. That’s why we adhere to Design Justice Principles.
Corporate capitalism tends to externalize costs and risks to communities and ecosystems. We want to do better. We justify our existence because increased privacy on the internet supports free and healthy democracies - and the right to peaceably assemble to work for change from within. We pledge to help strengthen our global buffer by rewilding our diverse global ecosystems. Change takes everyone. Including us.
We’re also committed to corporate transparency. Changes to our Home Page, Terms of Service, and Privacy Policy are documented in this Gitlab repository.
But Charge For Services
Our flagship call portal, the Anonymous Internet Phone Booth, will always be offered as a free service. We can do this because the Phone Booth is limited to 1:1 peer-to-peer calls, which have a substantially lower burden on our bandwidth fees.
If you sign up for an account, you’ll be able to make multi-party calls as well as gain greater optionality in how your call reservations are made. For access to this functionality, we’ll need you to pay us.
Most free services make money by selling their users’ data and by taxing their attention via advertising. That’s not our way. We thought about doing an ICO or hiring some Amway sales reps, but figured it’s more straightforward and ethical to just charge you for our services. For now, we need to charge you about $25/month in order to run a barebones healthy company. We’re happy to offer you a free trial when you sign up with a credit card. You’ll be able to cancel for free at any time in the first 30 days without your card being charged. We look forward to being able to accept crypto payments soon. Please reach out to us to ask for your favorite token to be integrated first.