<p>Now that the 4th Amendment is no longer a guarantee against broad government spying, the floodgates have opened for tech companies to give users their privacy back. Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde's text-messaging app Heml.is already reached its funding goal, while the Skype-like Unsene platform launched its own Indiegogo campaign today.</p><p>Just in case the Pirate Bay hadn't ticked off enough people in government, Sunde wants to build a spy-proof messaging service as an alternative to text-messaging or Apple's iMessage, which are reportedly monitored by intelligence agencies. Heml.is ("hemlis" is Swedish for "secret"), uses a security protocol known as End-to-End encryption, meaning that only the user and sender have the keys to descramble messages as they are sent over the Internet.</p><p>"We've decided to build a messaging platform where no one can spy on you not even us," Sunde explains in the video.</p><p>Sunde has decided not to sell advertising on the service, so he's soliciting $100K in startup funds from users.</p><p><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/12/market-for-spy-proof-messaging-heats-up/">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/071113-foreign-messaging-services-complicate-government-271709.html">Foreign messaging services complicate government spying</a> (Network World)</p><p><a href="http://upstart.bizjournals.com/money/strapped/2013/07/11/pirate-bay-co-founder-raises-cash-for.html">Pirate Bay co-founder raises cash for encrypted messaging</a> (Upstart)</p><p><a href="http://www.coindesk.com/pirate-bay-founder-seeks-bitcoin-funding-for-encrypted-messaging-app-hemlis/">Pirate Bay founder seeks bitcoin funding for encrypted messaging app Hemlis</a> (CoinDesk)</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=dyP51XzSegOAJXMC2w8cuU6KH362M&ned=us">20 additional articles.</a></p>