Police Say They Can Crack BlackBerry PGP Encrypted Email (sophos.com)

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @02:46AM from the proof-is-in-the-pgpudding dept.

schwit1 writes: Police in two countries have claimed that they can read encrypted data from BlackBerry devices that are being marketed as having "military-grade security." The story originally broke when Dutch website Misdaadnieuws (Crime News) published documents from the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI), a Dutch law enforcement agency, stating that police were able to access deleted messages and read encrypted emails on so-called BlackBerry PGP devices. A representative from NFI confirmed that "we are capable of obtaining encrypted data from BlackBerry PGP devices," according to a report from Motherboard. On Tuesday, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) also told Motherboard they can crack encrypted messages on PGP BlackBerrys.

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Re:Beware of BlackBerry shills by drew_kime · 2016-01-13 04:00 · Score: 5, Insightful

2. Law enforcement says "don't use Blackberry because we cracked it". Stress on the "don't use Blackberry" part ?
That's what seems odd to me. Why would police disclose that they're able to do this? Isn't this the kind of capability you'd want to keep under wraps? Almost seems like they want people to avoid BB. I wonder why.

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