Phil Zimmerman, an authority on privacy is the creator of PrettyGood Privacy (PGP) email encryption software. He is also the co-founder of SilentCircle a privacy and encryption firm. He has teamed up with the people at Geeksphone to produce the world’s first NSA proof smartphone.

The Blackphone is a customized Android smartphone that has the necessary software and the necessary hardware to make secure phone calls, secure messages, secure emails and store and transfer files securely. In the post Snowden era, with the NSA monitoring everything, it was time for a phone that could be truly private, and not just for CIA agents.

Extremetech reports that theres no known pricing for this phone yet and the exact specifications haven’t been shared, but the Blackphone is supposed to go on sale for preorders as Mobile World Congress kicks off February 24th. We do know that Zimmerman’s Silent Phone, Silent Text and Silent Mail software products are the software part of the device.

There are a lot of hurdles standing in the way of a truly encrypted, NSA proof smatphone. The folks at ET have said that the baseband of the Blackphone hasn’t been revealed and it’s been assumed that the NSA has received data through the baseband. For Blackphone to be totally private it would have to on an open-sourced baseband, which is unlikely.

The phone is built on PrivatOS a version of Android that people are familiar with which includes all of the available apps and additional security measures that allow for encrypted messages, and an extra level of privacy which users are demanding for the market.

Zimmerman says that he’s been interested in secure telephony longer than he’s been interested in secure email, saying that PGP was a sidetrack to his quest to work with secure telephony, which now,because of technology he can.

Check out their promo video below. With just about a month to go before Mobile World Congress Blackphone still has a lot of questions to answer but hopefully by the time pre-orders go live we’ll know everything about it.

Find out more at blackphone.ch