Hopes Rise for RIM

sbowles writes "U.S. District Court has set Feb 24th as the next date for a hearing to consider a possible injunction against Research in Motion. Despite this, RIM shares are rising on news that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), under pressure from crackberry-addicted Congressmen, may be moving to invalidate NTP's patents. As a contingency, RIM has announced that they have a software workaround that will allow service to continue uninterrupted."

Comments

Re:Only /slightly/ off-topic

[SydBarrett]

You forgot how they never change the default sig the blackberry uses:

"Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld"

Yeah, I'm sure everyone getting your email is so fucking impressed that you are able to spit out a incoherent message on your super neeto wireless device that was designed for retarded chimps. Except that a retarded chimp would know how to actully use it better than you.

I used to work at a helpdesk, and when the Verizon wireless service would go down for a few minutes, the place got flooded with call from these crack addicts. Now if they were in the middle of no place with no computer, yeah, I could see the problem. But 90% of these people were sitting in their office RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE FUCKING COMPUTER, BUT STILL WANT TO USE THEIR BLACKBERRY.

Oh yeah, the cell phone part of them really suck.

Re:National Security?

[arivanov]

You are showing all signs of addiction including detachment from reality and assigning to your addictive substance (crackberry) mythical powers which it does not posses. Encryption is clearly not one of them.

If I recall correctly the Crackberry is the only wireless email system where the PGP and x509 integration are solely at the server. The messages are decrypted at the server and sent to the device unencrypted perusing only the GPRS wireless encryption which is pretty weak by modern standards. They are temporarily stored at the device unencrypted as well, which defeats the idea of PGP and x509 completely.