Blackbeery no longer secure

[Kurt Granroth]

On 08/18/2010 11:20 PM, 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?

Well, the default Mail app on the iPhone mostly certainly does support
encrypted mail.  I'm using it with IMAP-SSL and SMTP-SSL with no
problems.  I can't imagine that Android wouldn't have similar functionality.

I don't believe that emails for companies using Blackberry phones are
stored on RIM servers at all, much less unencrypted.  And... in fact, I
found this page which does a pretty decent job of explaining how it
works as well as some speculation on exactly what RIM is giving up in
the Saudi Arabia and UAE cases:

http://swildstrom.wordpress.com/2010/08/16/blackberry-between-a-rim-and-a-hard-place/