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Re: spyware on Blackberries
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Tue Jul 21 22:43:13 2009
To: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:36:09 -0400
In-Reply-To: <20090715174526.4f4b446f@cs.columbia.edu> (Steven M. Bellovin's message of "Wed\, 15 Jul 2009 17\:45\:26 -0400")
"Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu> writes:
> http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired27b/~3/CFV8MEwH_rM/
>
> A BlackBerry update that a United Arab Emirates service provider pushed
> out to its customers contains U.S.-made spyware that would allow the
> company or others to siphon and read their e-mail and text messages,
> according to a researcher who examined it.
>
> The update was billed as a =E2=80=9Cperformance enhancement patch=E2=80=
=9D by the
> UAE-based phone and internet service provider Etisalat, which issued
> the patch for its 100,000 subscribers.
>
> ...
An update: RIM confirms to its customers that the update was spyware
pushed on them by their own carrier.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/etisalat-blackberry-update-was-indeed-sp=
yware-rim-provides-a-so/
Perry
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