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Completely useless web page. All wooly 'feel-good' words and no hard, concrete information. So I guess we just have to take it on trust then? Also, their priva

Completely useless web page. All wooly 'feel-good' words and no hard, concrete information. So I guess we just have to take it on trust then? Also, their privacy policy is laughable: We turn the logging level on our systems to log only protocol-related errors - great! the pages on our main web site pull in javascript files from a third party. This allows our web developers and salespeople to know which pages are being looked at - so instead of keeping your own logs, you are outsourcing this to a 3rd party with worse privacy policies, and who can now aggregate your website usage with other sites. Why didn't they just keep logging on and get rid of the 3rd party bugs?

Torn 13y ago
Expecting people to write their own metrics stack for a promo site is a bit OTT - there are a lot of good analytics stacks out there which let you get up and running very quickly, complete with dashboards, metrics, etc.
- icebraining 13y ago
  You don't need to write your own, just self-host it: http://piwik.org/ http://piwik.org/
tomp 13y ago
Well, Silent Circle is based in Washington DC, so even if they were keeping logs themselves, it wouldn't be much of a privacy reassurance...
daliusd 13y ago
This web page is clearly marketing page not technology information page. They simply try to gather information if there is interest/demand for something like this. LEAN startup :-)
panacea 13y ago
"Blackphone is re-shaping the landscape of personal communications. Pre-ordering begins..." How is it re-shaping anything before it's started shipping?
- izolate 13y ago
  Come on, this can't be the first time you've encountered shitty marketing lingo.
- yitchelle 13y ago
  "Pre-ordering begins..." is letting folks their idea validating strategy. I wonder what the threshold is going to be, 100, 500, 1000 or more pre-ordered phones.
  - rbanffy 13y ago
    It also helps to build a list of people who have something to hide ;-)
- notdrunkatall 13y ago
  Do you even marketing, somewhat obtuse bro?
- jlgaddis 13y ago
  They should have s/re-shaping/disrupting/g if/when the referrer is HN.

Torn 13y ago

Expecting people to write their own metrics stack for a promo site is a bit OTT - there are a lot of good analytics stacks out there which let you get up and running very quickly, complete with dashboards, metrics, etc.

icebraining 13y ago
You don't need to write your own, just self-host it: http://piwik.org/ http://piwik.org/

tomp 13y ago

Well, Silent Circle is based in Washington DC, so even if they were keeping logs themselves, it wouldn't be much of a privacy reassurance...

daliusd 13y ago

This web page is clearly marketing page not technology information page. They simply try to gather information if there is interest/demand for something like this. LEAN startup :-)

panacea 13y ago

"Blackphone is re-shaping the landscape of personal communications. Pre-ordering begins..." How is it re-shaping anything before it's started shipping?

izolate 13y ago
Come on, this can't be the first time you've encountered shitty marketing lingo.
yitchelle 13y ago
"Pre-ordering begins..." is letting folks their idea validating strategy. I wonder what the threshold is going to be, 100, 500, 1000 or more pre-ordered phones.
- rbanffy 13y ago
  It also helps to build a list of people who have something to hide ;-)
notdrunkatall 13y ago
Do you even marketing, somewhat obtuse bro?
jlgaddis 13y ago
They should have s/re-shaping/disrupting/g if/when the referrer is HN.