> >it was only for messages traversing Indian or Pakistani networks, and my memory was that BlackBerry did not hand the keys over, just answered all of their re

> >it was only for messages traversing Indian or Pakistani networks, and my memory was that BlackBerry did not hand the keys over, just answered all of their requests > They handed over their "global encryption key" to the RCMP, see https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160414/10482434186/canad.. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160414/10482434186/canad.... > They jumped from "most secure" to "least secure" effectively immediately once they did that. That article is an absolutely fantastic example of how the press treated BlackBerry (average consumers might come away thinking that BlackBerry devices are insecure). It is after BlackBerry was dead from a market share perspective, so this isn't really applicable to the period I am referring to, which was from iPhone launch to maybe as late as 2012, when BlackBerry went from hero to zero.