In 2011, the UK had a few days of rioting and looting where kids were supposedly using Blackberry's private pseudo anon messenger system BBM to advertise flash

In 2011, the UK had a few days of rioting and looting where kids were supposedly using Blackberry's private pseudo anon messenger system BBM to advertise flash mobs of looting. UK authorities complained BBM's encryption was to blame for the looting. Within a few days afterwards, the BBM service experienced some rare downtime, during which presumably, accommodations were made to cater to accessibility of the encrypted messages for the UK gov. http://www.computerworld.com/article/2470761/mobile-apps/2011-london-riots-cause-blackberry-bbm-rethink.html http://www.computerworld.com/article/2470761/mobile-apps/201...