The last few days were likely not kind to BlackBerry CEO John Chen after reports of the RCMP having unfettered access to encrypted BlackBerry messages for years surfaced. He’s now posted a blog post which can be found here. Now, I encourage you to read it for yourself. But several things are clear to me after reading this:
- BlackBerry did let the RCMP have access to this data. Why? BlackBerry co-operates with law enforcement as long as their request is lawful.
- If you are a consumer, which means that you use the BlackBerry Internet Service, your data is safe…. As long as you’re not a bad guy. In which case BlackBerry will hand it over upon request to law enforcement.
- If you use BlackBerry Enterprise server, you have nothing to worry about because they allegedly can’t get to your data. Oh, if you’re a bad guy, this also means that you might want to take the hint and move over to BES to keep BlackBerry from handing over your data to the cops.
Thus I really think that this will do nothing to put an end to this firestorm. In fact, it will likely keep the fire going for some time. Why? People will compare this response to Apple’s response to the FBI, which was if you recall was to not help them, and make their purchasing decisions based on that. In that scenario, BlackBerry comes out the big loser. Guaranteed.
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John Chen Responds To Cops Having Access To BlackBerry Data
The last few days were likely not kind to BlackBerry CEO John Chen after reports of the RCMP having unfettered access to encrypted BlackBerry messages for years surfaced. He’s now posted a blog post which can be found here. Now, I encourage you to read it for yourself. But several things are clear to me after reading this:
Thus I really think that this will do nothing to put an end to this firestorm. In fact, it will likely keep the fire going for some time. Why? People will compare this response to Apple’s response to the FBI, which was if you recall was to not help them, and make their purchasing decisions based on that. In that scenario, BlackBerry comes out the big loser. Guaranteed.
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