Blackbeery no longer secure

Bryan O'Neal Bryan.ONeal at TheONealAndAssociates.com
Thu Aug 19 21:49:44 MST 2010


Yes and no - Rim does not - but the end mail point it hands off to
does. Much like if my server uses the paypal API I pass encrypted data
to pay pall and pass it back - I never see your actual information -
Rim does something similar. But they are changing that and testing the
new method where they do have unencrypted access in several countries.

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:20 PM, der.hans <PLUGd at lufthans.com> 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
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