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Blackphone Bug Bounty Program 2014 - Infrastructure, Support & Services

The Blackphone is a smartphone developed by SGP Technologies that provides encryption for phone calls, emails, texts & browsing. SGP Technologies is a joint venture business between the makers of GeeksPhone & Silent Circle.

Blackphone provides internet access through a secure VPN online-service. The blackphone mobile runs a modified version of PrivatOS, forked from Android 4.4.2, that comes with a bundle of security-minded tools. On June 30 in 2014 the silentcircle team began to ship pre-orders for the soon available blackphone device.

During the last week the blackphone company silent-circle discovered the new bug bounty program. In scope of the bug bounty program are the following targets of the company.

During the last year we was waiting for the new public release that was silent announced by microsoft officials in the tech center. In several mails and conversations they announced silently between the lines that there will be a bug bounty program for online services in the future.

Microsoft published the new conditions, scope and rules of the program that starts today (23. September). An anonymous microsoft official notified the vulnerability laboratory in the morning as one of the first community to announce the exclusive new program to the publicly.

The program scope allows to submit vulnerabilities in the following online service applications and software