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I don't understand how blackberry has access to intercept anything. Are all phones constantly phoning home checking if i_belong_to_a_bad_guy == True maybe at th
by dec0dedab0de 10y ago
I don't understand how blackberry has access to intercept anything. Are all phones constantly phoning home checking if i_belong_to_a_bad_guy == True maybe at the time of a software update they base it on one of the unique identifiers. Ultimately though, who cares this day and age the only people I know using blackberries are people with big hands who like to type fast.
- thought_alarm 10y agoThey're talking about data that is dispatched through Blackberry's network: BBM messages and their consumer internet service (BIS) that handles email and web traffic on older devices. BlackBerry will turn over BBM messages in the same way that the phone company will turn over SMS messages, and Microsoft and Yahoo and Google will turn over email messages. All of those companies have to operate within US law. The controversy here is related to how BlackBerry is cooperating with less-friendly foreign governments.
- dec0dedab0de 10y agoahh, so not BES data or any arbitrary data on a consumer phone. That makes sense then. Maybe there should be an open standard for data requests, and transparency, and if you get caught breaking it you get removed from DNS and BGP.