BlackBerry Encryption & the Dog that Didn't Bark

One major world government which is usually quite touchy about things going on that it can’t monitor seems quite blasé about all this.  Igor is wondering why …

PCWorld (8/6 ’10): “RIM Facing Government Pressure to Open Up”

Press reports indicate that BlackBerry maker RIM seems to be under increasing pressure to open up its encrypted communications from customers to governments, who are increasingly concerned about security. It seems that officials are worried that criminals – and terrorists too – are using the encryption to their advantage since there is no way to monitor transmissions.

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  1. twist says:
    August 6, 2010 at 12:28 PM

    John-

    Government doesn’t seem to believe that innocent people might just want their privacy. If we aren’t sharing our data, we must be hiding something.

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