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BlackBerry's Encryption Hacked; Backups Now a Risk

Posted by Soulskill on from the good-news-for-india dept.

GMGruman writes "InfoWorld blogger Martin Heller reveals that a Russian passcode-breaker developer has broken the encryption used in BlackBerry backups. That can help recover data when passwords are lost, but also gives data thieves access to a treasure trove of corporate secrets. And the developer boasts that it was easier to crack the BlackBerry encryption than it was to crack Apple's iOS."

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  1. Re:But... the playlists! by jimicus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Probably because it was only a few years ago that there was no other serious business phone that did a half-decent job of email and had management features built right in (such as encforcing endpoint encryption and remote wiping).

    Now more-or-less every smartphone offers such features, and non-smart phones are rapidly starting to look like an endangered species. Blackberry no longer offer anything particularly special.