QSAlpha, a San Francisco based phone designer, is in the midst of raising money to build a heavily fortified smartphone that it claims will be impervious to the snooping and identity theft of black hat hackers. The company plans to release the Quasar IV some time next year and claims the encryption techniques on the device are completely unbreakable.
“It is literally impossible,” says CEO Steve Chao. QSAlpha’s fundraising goal of $3.2 million on Indiegogo has struggled to hit $50,000 as of this week but Chao says QSAlpha will plow ahead with the phone even if they don’t reach their goal.
Time will tell on Chao’s claims. Security experts usually scoff at the idea of unhackability. The very word is blood in the water. Every lock has a key, the thinking goes, so to say that some security measure can’t be broken or solved is simply an impossibility.
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