Twitter Buys Security/Privacy Firm and Shuts Down Key Encrypted Voice Communication Tool in the Middle East

Relatively small tech company acquisitions are usually only interesting to people who follow the tech industry. And, that’s how Twitter’s purchase of the security and privacy specialist firm Whispter Systems was perceived when most of us read news items like this one on Forbes: Twitter Acquires Moxie Marlinspike’s Encryption Startup Whisper Systems

It is also reasonably common for products and services to be frozen or pulled when a small company is acquired. And, that is what happened in this case too as noted in Whisper System’s acqusition announcement.

The Whisper Systems software as our users know it will live on (and we have some surprises in store that we’re excited about), but there is unfortunately a transition period where we will have to temporarily take our products and services offline.

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