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Re: More on Blackberry interception in India
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Wed Sep 24 15:06:14 2008
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:36:38 -0400
In-Reply-To: <87fxnsm55a.fsf@snark.cb.piermont.com> (Perry E. Metzger's message of "Mon\, 22 Sep 2008 14\:01\:21 -0400")
"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> writes:
> (I saw this on another mailing list -- a follow-on to earlier
> discussions about Blackberry in India. No idea how believable any of
> it is because there is a great deal of difference between the way
> Blackberries work in a corporate and non-corporate context -- this
> could just be interception at the mail server provided by the
> cellphone company. --Perry)
>
> http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/At_last_govt_cracks_BlackBerry_code/articleshow/3510719.cms
Another followup seems to indicate they are indeed only looking at
traffic that wasn't encrypted end-to-end to enterprise customers.
http://www.heise-online.co.uk/security/Times-of-India-reports-alleged-BlackBerry-decryption--/news/111584
Perry
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