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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.
After all, who wouldn't want the government to be able to spy on you? As long as it's lawful, that is.
It's really hard to put nails into your own coffin from the outside, but DAmn are they trying.
>"The company may see this as a way to differentiate themselves from the competition."
Um, yeah- "Buy our phones! They are better because we allow the government to spy on you!" What a great selling feature to differentiate yourself from your competition. I bet consumers will flock to that ?!!?!?!!
The fact they felt it necessary to put the word lawful in that description is kind of like a mobster using the phrase "legitimate businessman". Real legitimate businessmen call themselves 'businessmen'. They don't need to add the word legitimate, because they are legitimate. You don't add the word 'lawful' unless deep down in your heart, you have questions about it being lawful.
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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.
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Progressivism (aka US 'Liberalism'): Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce.
>> .... still use one. This makes me want to go get an iPhone.
> Why, isn't this the same policy they always had?
Correct, it has always been Blackberry policy to make you want to go get an iPhone.
From what I understand a large number of their clients these days are governmental, so this move isn't all that surprising. If they took a different stance they probably would end up like QWest when they told the government to shove it when they started their illegal wiretaping program suddenly all of QWests government contracts were canceled and they found themselves under "investigation".