Virtru Will Shield Emails From Hackers and the FBI, but Not From Your Boss

Free NSA-caliber encryption and a 5-year-old could use it.

John and Will Ackerly each had stints in the government during the surveillance build-up of the past two decades – John as a Bush administration technology adviser and Will as an engineer at the National Security Agency.

Today the two brothers from the District of Columbia play very different roles: helping individuals and corporations evade snooping of all sorts through an encrypted communications app called Virtru.

“Our focus is on the 99.99 percent of folks who know they’ve got to secure their content, but it’s always been too hard and complicated before,” said CEO John Ackerly.

For the layperson, it’s hard to tell whether Virtru’s system is any better than its competition. For the full article click here 

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