Please explain how they have viewed users as adversaries, that is a pretty ridiculous statement. Blackberry devices are the most secure on the planet of course they are more locked down than Apple's. There is kernel level security from QNX and their devices have never been rooted. Apple has only given out enough information to help developers. Plus how is being locked down a bad thing?
Go read up on encryption. You don't have a clue what you are talking about. Even if Blackberry put in a back door to the system, which they didn't, they could not decrypt the data because they did not create the key. Arguing continually about this makes you look ridiculous because this is a fact you have to live with. You can doubt it all you want but you would be 100% wrong. Ignoring the facts doesn't help anything.
How is something that happened in the 70's where people broke into a hotel and committed a crime related to this? Plus this was probably taking place in their Ottawa offices, not in Waterloo. Plus nothing illegal happened here at all. There have been a few other far more important scandals between this and watergate. This isn't even a scandal or crime at all.
Government is one of Blackberrys biggest customers already. Not sure what your spoof is supposed to mean. Most of what this article is referring to is old old news that was related to old blackberrys from 5 years ago and not the next generation blackberry devices.
What does "Launderingin the furtherance of fraud on the courts" even mean. It sounds really cool but doesn't make any sense to me at all. Blackberry requires a court warrant for all requests.
India and Pakistan wanted full access to public and enterprise blackberries. Blackberry refused to give the enterprise backdoor so the compromised on the public data. That was the secret agreement you refer to, that isn't really secret.
It's a fact that enterprise customers set their own key. If you knew anything about encryption or read the documentation you would know this. You can verify it no problem it is documented in technical documentation, proving it. Go read instead of accusing them of fictional things.
If you are not a criminal, police will not be trying to access your data. Otherwise BB is secure as anything. Enterprise Blackberrys are not accessible by anyone but the enterprise, Blackberry cannot access the data no matter what.
You are just making stuff up. They are eager to help law enforcement with investigations, not give away your data. This article fails to mention a POLICE WARRANT is required for all requests and they will not be fulfilled with out the legal court document.
You are obviously not an expert on Blackberry so you are totally wrong about the enterprise Blackberry environments. If you were to actually go read about the technology you would actually discover that if an encryption key is set by the customer, nobody can crack it. Nobody. Doesn't matter if there was a back door, they couldn't encrypt the data. Being you don't understand how encryption works, I am not clear why you are even continuing to argue your claims. All you really want to do is trash Blackberry.
Blackberry is complying with police warrants only. Not sure how you think that they are selling you out personally unless you are committing crimes. Plus this is mostly in relation to old Blackberrys that used the Blackberry network. New Blackberrys don't use this network. The major phone carriers all give your information out to law enforcement with a warrant, why should Blackberry be any different.
This article seems to want to accuse Blackberry for just randomly accessing everyone's information anytime. The fact is agency applying to have data extracted or collected also had to provide a legal warrant along with the request. You fail to mention this small fact that a real warrant from a real judge in a real court is required. Plus in most cases this is all for old Blackberry phones that used the blackberry network. Not current Blackberry devices which no longer use the Blackberry network, except for BBM messages. In fact they are only doing what is legally required. No one's privacy is being exposed anymore than anyone else that has a police warrant due to an investigation into their activities. So is it ok that the phone carriers also help law enforcement get calls, messages, texts and other similar information and that the phone carriers also have departments to do this? Why should smartphone data be private yet they can access all this other information. The fact is the police have every legal right to access this information. Refusing to help the police should be illegal. For all the people who think their privacy is violated, have you committed any crimes? If you have not committed crimes I am not clear how you can be worried about anything. If you have committed crimes and document them on your smartphone, to bad for you.
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You are obviously not an expert on Blackberry so you are totally wrong about the enterprise Blackberry environments. If you were to actually go read about the technology you would actually discover that if an encryption key is set by the customer, nobody can crack it. Nobody. Doesn't matter if there was a back door, they couldn't encrypt the data. Being you don't understand how encryption works, I am not clear why you are even continuing to argue your claims. All you really want to do is trash Blackberry.
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