No Spying

The Prague Post Online: Espionage agents, paranoid conspiracy theorists and others prizing their privacy have cause to thank Marian Kechlibar.
Kechlibar, 27, and his friend Ji?í Šatánek, 31, have devised a new program that codes text, or SMS, messages so that no third party — police, secret service, even mobile phone operators — can read them.
“We felt that there is too much phone tapping going on in this country,” says Šatánek. “Everyone has a right to their privacy.”
Outside it’s a cold Karlín evening. But inside the three-room, wood-paneled Prague 8 headquarters of CircleTech, a company that creates mobile phone software, it’s warm and cozy. And quiet.
Kechlibar, his long hair tied in a low ponytail, reclines in a mustard-colored plush armchair. Šatánek is there, too. Speaking in low, polite tones, both men sound excited in their own restrained ways.
Their program, appropriately named SMS 007, is one of the first of its kind that can be installed into most cell phones. The two are working on a version that codes regular cell phone conversations as well, and they hope to release it next summer.
Read our text messages? Just try [The Prague Post Online]