Blackbeery no longer secure

Eric Cope eric.cope at gmail.com
Thu Aug 19 09:43:03 MST 2010


RIM = Research In Motion - the company behind Blackberry.

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Eric Shubert <ejs at shubes.net> wrote:

> der.hans wrote:
>
>> Am 18. Aug, 2010 schwätzte Bryan O'Neal so:
>>
>>  Generaly BB was considerd the most secure. I can listen into any GSM
>>> phone
>>> call for about $1500 in equipment and sniff unecrypted data. As I
>>> understood
>>> it BB made the point of encrypting all of their data - iphone and android
>>> levee it to the application but I believe the default mail apps do not
>>> encrypt on either platform.
>>>
>>
>> Well, then there's an opportunity. We need android mail and sms apps that
>> will encrypt messages :).
>>
>> The BB stuff just encrypts in transit to/from the servers, so RIM still
>> has unencrypted access to it anyway, right?
>>
>> ciao,
>>
>> der.hans
>>
>>
> RIM ??
>
> --
> -Eric 'shubes'
>
>
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