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They'll get plenty of new customers

It will just be the constituents of various governments that require the use of devices they can monitor. No shortage of authoritarian governments.

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What's POTUS going to do?

As I understand it, he got a special "super-secure" blackberry when he took office.

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Re: What's POTUS going to do?

Which only the NSA, CIA, FBI, and Metro Police can monitor.

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The way things are going now the only way to make sure the government can't spy on you is to ditch all cell phone equivalents, and other electronics you carry around with you, and make sure your...

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and anyone with a laptop and some easy-to-obtain open source software that can smush Blackberry security within minutes.......that's able to get within 500 foot of the handset of course......

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Rim is dead....long live RIM.... note: I say this because may corporate users get RIM devices specifically due to their reputation for being secure....now that this is clearly no longer the case, i...

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Interesting technical implications

I'm rather interested in the technical implications here, as this implies a major underlying flaw in the encryption RIM is using. It shouldn't be a trivial thing to break the level of encryption RIM...

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RIM was already loosing space in the smartphone market place and lay offs abundant. Now allowing for snooping they have just killed themselves completely. A good Canadian company again killed off. RIM...

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Quite a bit. First of all, cell phones should require a warrant for a specific person or connection before you can 'monitor'. Same thing for internet connections. Same thing for credit cards and bank...

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I wonder exactly how Verint's "solution" works? I'm guessing a firmware update that installs a rootkit like CarrierIQ.

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It would be easier to say that in order to ensure the gov't doesn't spy on us is to ditch all third party services and do everything ourselves. Given enough time, all these services will roll over and...

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"If you're a RIM Blackberry customer..."

You just got a RIMjob.

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Re: Re: What's POTUS going to do?

Why have them monitoring when you can just have the Illuminati do it band be much more secret about it?

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Russia

in russia, they have already worked around this issue. The cellular provider owns the BES, and you provide them with an account that has access to your blackberry users' mailboxes. Its super effective...

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place I work for just got rid of 150 blackberry handsets less than 2 years after implementing them manager-wide. Stating that they weren't sure if they were secure, they've changed to a...

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Re: Interesting technical implications

thats assuming RIM doesn't throw an unencrypted feed along with the encrypted.....or a secondary feed only THEY can decrypt thats sent out at an OS level so can't be bypasses by apps/settings.

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You guys must realize that spying is for the national security. While I agree this can be abused, I also realize it is used generally for the country's own good majority of the time. Why do people feel...

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Rim job?

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I think you got your numbers backwards. Real threats rarely happen, so most of the time this will be used to spy on others for other reasons. Iran contras was not a fantasy and it highlights why spying...

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"Bottom line is that 'criminals' should not drive exceptions to our system of protections" I vehemently disagree with this point. Do you know that ONLY FIVE PEOPLE killed 3000 people during 9/11?

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