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Blackberry Offers 'Lawful Device Interception Capabilities' (itnews.com.au)

An anonymous reader writes: Apple and Google have been vocal in their opposition to any kind of government regulation of cell phone encryption. BlackBerry, however, is taking a different stance, saying it specifically supports "lawful interception capabilities" for government surveillance. BlackBerry COO Marty Beard as much at a recent IT summit. He declined to explain how the interception works, but he denied the phones would contain "backdoors" and said governments would have no direct access to BlackBerry servers. The company may see this as a way to differentiate themselves from the competition.

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  1. Re:Lel by BlueStrat · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Ya no ty. I pay my taxes, if I buy a product it is supposed to be mine.

    The concept of personal property is being phased out.

    Everything, from what you can say and what views you can express in public/online without being fired, being threatened with death, sued, even jailed, what you may do with things you've 'bought', right down to the money in your pocket and even you, yourself, are property of and/or controlled by the policies and agendas of the collective as dictated by a government/corporate/banking oligarchy and their sycophants and useful idiots in positions of influence in society.

    I highly recommend reading "The Creature From Jekyll Island" by G. Edward Griffin to begin to understand the power structure in the US. The most powerful players are rarely mentioned in the MSM.

    https://archive.org/details/Cr...

    Strat

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    Progressivism (aka US 'Liberalism'): Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce.
  2. Which government? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The Canadian government?
    The US Government?
    The governments of "five eyes" countries?
    The Egyptian government?
    The Russian government?
    The Syrian government?
    The Islamic State's government?
    The Chinese government?

    all of them?