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What am I missing? When I Google "blackberry pin to pin encryption" , the first result is this article: > Canadian government warns BBM PIN-to-PIN messaging i
by peeters 11y ago
What am I missing? When I Google "blackberry pin to pin encryption" , the first result is this article:
> Canadian government warns BBM PIN-to-PIN messaging is ‘most vulnerable method of communicating on a BlackBerry’
http://bgr.com/2013/02/27/blackberry-messenger-security-vulnerability-346634/ http://bgr.com/2013/02/27/blackberry-messenger-security-vuln...
> Canadian government agency Public Safety Canada, which is tasked with overseeing cyber-security across all federal departments, has issued a memo warning government workers that communicating using BlackBerry Messenger PIN-to-PIN messaging is “the most vulnerable method of communicating on a BlackBerry.” ... According to the memo, PIN-to-PIN messages sent via BlackBerry Messenger could be intercepted and read by any BlackBerry user anywhere in the world. ... “Although PIN-to-PIN messages are encrypted, they key used is a global cryptographic ‘key’ that is common to every BlackBerry device all over the world,” Public Safety Canada official stated in the memo. “Any BlackBerry device can potentially decrypt all PIN-to-PIN messages sent by any other BlackBerry device.”
Why is there any surprise then that the RCMP has capability to decrypt it?