What Happened to Starium?

An anonymous reader asks: "I have been following the Starium voice encryption project for several years. They seem to have ended and their site is dead. I remember around 1998 and 1999, a lot of people were excited by what they were doing and some demo units were floating around. Eric Blossom was interviewed on Slashdot recently but he didn't mention it and all the posters asking about it were modded down. What happened to them?"

Slow down!!

[tgrotvedt]

Jeez, I can't get a word in here!

Didja ask 'em?

[Trane Francks]

The web site shows current contact info:

Starium LTD.
1346 The Alameda
Suite 7-171
San Jose, CA
95126

Telephone:
[phone]

Facsimile:
[phone]

E Mail:
[e-mail]

Did you actually try to contact the company to see if they'd be forthcoming with a tidbit of information?

Starium?

[belloc]

'Nothing good ends in "-ium". Good things end with "-mania" and "-eteria".'

-HJS

Belloc

They're pretty much defunct

[phr2]

They ran out of money like so many other dotcoms. There's some chance of a revival but I'm not holding my breath. I'll forward the url of this thread to Eric Blossom and maybe he'll post something. Meanwhile, here's a comparable product [l-3com.com]. And there's always Nautilus [lila.com] and PGPfone [mit.edu] (disclosure: I'm a co-author of Nautilus).