[joosters]

Completely useless web page. All wooly 'feel-good' words and no hard, concrete information. So I guess we just have to take it on trust then?

Also, their privacy policy is laughable:

We turn the logging level on our systems to log only protocol-related errors - great!

the pages on our main web site pull in javascript files from a third party. This allows our web developers and salespeople to know which pages are being looked at - so instead of keeping your own logs, you are outsourcing this to a 3rd party with worse privacy policies, and who can now aggregate your website usage with other sites.

Why didn't they just keep logging on and get rid of the 3rd party bugs?

[tomp]

Well, Silent Circle is based in Washington DC, so even if they were keeping logs themselves, it wouldn't be much of a privacy reassurance...

[daliusd]

This web page is clearly marketing page not technology information page. They simply try to gather information if there is interest/demand for something like this. LEAN startup :-)

[panacea]

"Blackphone is re-shaping the landscape of personal communications. Pre-ordering begins..."

How is it re-shaping anything before it's started shipping?

[yitchelle]

"Pre-ordering begins..." is letting folks their idea validating strategy. I wonder what the threshold is going to be, 100, 500, 1000 or more pre-ordered phones.

[rbanffy]

It also helps to build a list of people who have something to hide ;-)

[izolate]

Come on, this can't be the first time you've encountered shitty marketing lingo.

[jlgaddis]

They should have s/re-shaping/disrupting/g if/when the referrer is HN.

[notdrunkatall]

Do you even marketing, somewhat obtuse bro?

[Torn]

Expecting people to write their own metrics stack for a promo site is a bit OTT - there are a lot of good analytics stacks out there which let you get up and running very quickly, complete with dashboards, metrics, etc.

[icebraining]

You don't need to write your own, just self-host it: http://piwik.org/