Buying a TV shouldn’t mean accepting a black box that collects data while you have little control over what’s happening behind the scenes. If it takes a root shell and serious reverse engineering to understand the privacy risks, ordinary users have almost no chance of checking for themselves. It’s a bigger reason to care about privacy by design. Liberdus takes a different approach to messaging with end-to-end encryption and username based accounts that don’t require a phone number or email. Users shouldn’t have to become security researchers just to protect their everyday conversations.