UNBROKEN: THE SANCTUARY CODE

Airdate: TBD
Guest: Hoshi Jones — via CEF SecureLink

[Intro music fades in — warm documentary tones with a faint digital undercurrent.]

HOST (V.O.)
You’re listening to Unbroken, a documentary about the technologies that didn’t just change the world — they changed us.

Today: Covenant.

Depending on who you ask, Covenant is a miracle, a curse, a human right, a national security threat, a lifeline for survivors, or the most overengineered messaging platform ever created. Half the planet uses it. No one fully understands it. And the man behind it — Hoshi Jones — rarely speaks in public.

For security reasons, today’s interview is happening through CEF SecureLink, the enterprise version of the Covenant framework. It’s the only environment he trusts enough to appear in.

[A soft encrypted handshake chime.]

HOST
Hoshi, are you with us?

HOSHI (REMOTE FEED)
I am. Your end passed the cryptographic challenge. That’s more than I can say for several governments.

HOST
Thank you for joining us. You almost never leave your Kansas complex, correct?

HOSHI
Correct. Travel is… complicated when intelligence agencies want your signature on a warrant that shouldn’t exist. So I stay where my systems are strongest.

HOST
Let’s start simple. For listeners who only think of Covenant as “that secure app,” what is it?

HOSHI
In the public imagination? It’s texting with armor. Covenant is an end-to-end encrypted sanctuary. No logs. No metadata. No keys stored anywhere. No cloud. No identifiers. No breadcrumbs. It’s mathematically irreducible. Even we can’t break it.

It’s free — not freemium, not ad-supported, not data-harvesting. Truly free. Privacy shouldn’t be a luxury item.

HOST
And businesses pay for CEF, the enterprise version?

HOSHI
Yes. CEF is secure — very secure — but not absolute. It has optional compliance modules, retention toggles, audit trails. Corporations need those. Real humans do not. The two systems share no code. None. Different teams. Different coasts. Different philosophies. The public version is built by the Cathedral Team in San Francisco. The enterprise version is built by the Tower Team in New York. Same name. Nothing else in common.

HOST
The public sees Covenant as normal life. But it’s built on tragedy, isn’t it?

HOSHI
Yes. My mother fled a violent man — my father. She took my brother and sister. New identities, new routines, new numbers. She used the “most secure messaging app” of that era. It wasn’t her messages that betrayed her. It was the metadata. The company complied with a request from someone who had no moral right to anything. He used that compliance to find her.

He killed all three.
I lived only because I was buying fever medicine.

People say Covenant is genius. It isn’t. It’s an apology.

HOST
Who uses Covenant today?

HOSHI
Everyone. First dates. Breakups. Therapy sessions. Secret relationships. Whistleblowing. Protests. Crimes. Goodnight messages. Surviving abusive partners. Documenting corruption. It’s a hammer, a shield, a hiding place, a confession booth, a weapon, a refuge. Covenant doesn’t decide which. People do.

HOST
Different groups see it differently.

HOSHI
Survivors call it safety. Criminals call it perfect. Journalists call it essential. Governments call it a threat. Police call it a blindfold. Tech forums call it madness. Victims who escaped their abusers call it freedom. Everyone’s right. Everyone’s wrong. Covenant is a mirror.

HOST
And your role now?

HOSHI
I’m a guard dog. I don’t need to be seen. I don’t need to travel. I don’t need attention. I need to protect the thing that protects people. Cathedral builds the sanctuary. Tower pays for it. I stay alive so both can exist.

HOST
If your family could hear you?

HOSHI
…I’d tell them: “I couldn’t save you. But I will save as many others as I can.” And I’d hope that’s enough.

[Closing music rises — slow, reflective.]

HOST (V.O.)
That was Hoshi Jones — founder of Covenant — speaking from his secure Kansas complex.
Next time: the world shaped by his code — a world where secrecy is guaranteed… and truth must find other ways to surface.