Pirate Bay founder seeks bitcoin funding for encrypted messaging app Hemlis
Bitcoiners are being asked to help fund the creation of Heml.is, an app that will allow people to send and receive messages safe in the knowledge they've not been read by anyone else. Hemlis means "secret" in Swedish and the company's founders, Peter Sunde, Leif Högberg and Linus Olsson, believe secrets are something modern society is lacking in. The Heml.is site states: "Private communication has more or less turned into an open stream for companies and governments to listen into. Companies like Facebook, Twitter, Apple and Google have been forced to open up their systems and hand out....
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