[liberationtech] BlackBerry and CALEA-II

[Griffin Boyce]

Andreas Bader <andreas.bader at nachtpult.de> wrote:

> Blackberry secures the connection if other firms want to get your data.
> If the government wants it then you should better use open source
> encrypted  Hardware.
> I have been a BB user for years, but there are some mail accounts that
> are only used on my Laptop, not on the BB.
>
> Andreas
>

  I disagree.  Blackberry isn't openly selling your data or otherwise
gifting it to third parties, but I don't think that's really enough.

  To me, it's disingenuous for companies to promote secure solutions that
they know allow some kind of backdoor access.

Jacob Appelbaum <jacob at appelbaum.net> wrote:

> What an embarrassing joke
>

Keep in mind that all PINs are 8-digit hex strings. Narrows the field a
bit. ;P

~Griffin

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