Researcher Makes Free Phone and Text Encryption Available to Egypt. Free phone and text-message encryption software that has until now been available mostly to U.S. users can now be used in Egypt, according to the security researcher who developed it.
The researcher, who goes by the name Moxie Marlinspike, released the software last year for use in the United States through his company Whisper Systems, and has been working on making it available for international users. He hasn’t reached that stage yet. But with the recent wave of political protests in Egypt — where activists have relied on mobile phones to organize and document their struggle — he and his team were motivated to work on bringing the software to Egyptians quickly. Twitter by phone.