GSMK CryptoPhone 500

Made:
2015 in Berlin
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GSMK CryptoPhone 500
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GSMK CryptoPhone 500
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GSMK CryptoPhone 500
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© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

GSMK CryptoPhone 500
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© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

GSMK CryptoPhone 500
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GSMK CryptoPhone 500
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GSMK CryptoPhone 500
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GSMK CryptoPhone 500
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GSMK CryptoPhone 500
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GSMK CryptoPhone 500. Mobile phone that provides full end-to-end encryption. Made by GSMK Gesellschaft fuer Sichere Mobile Kommunikation mbH, Berlin, Germany, 2015.

The GSMK CryptoPhone 500 is an Android-based secure mobile phone that provides full end-to-end voice and message encryption, based on a propriety system developed by Gesellschaft fuer Sichere Mobile Kommunikation mbH (GSMK), a Berlin-based company in the field of mobile voice and message security.

Secure telephones have been around since the 1970s and secure mobile telephones since the 1990s but were previously the preserve of governments, the military, and the intelligence services. This commercial product is available (at a price of $3,500) for business and personal customers with sales significantly increased in the aftermath of the Edward Snowden releases in 2013. As of 2014, there were nearly 100,000 of the CryptoPhone 500 handsets in use worldwide.

Details

Category:
Telecommunications
Object Number:
2019-1
Materials:
plastic (unidentified) and electronic components
Measurements:
overall: 71 mm x 137 mm x 9 mm, .133 kg
type:
mobile telephone
credit:
GSMK CryptoPhone