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The myth of secure encryption: NSA even crack BlackBerry - n-tv.de NEWS

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 The NSA Spähaffäre provides for months for trouble. The NSA Spähaffäre has been causing trouble for months (Photo: Reuters).

Sunday 08 September 2013

By Christian Rothenberg

private photos, contact lists, Whereabouts: Even smart phones are not safe from the NSA. This also applies to the BlackBerry devices. The always were considered unbreakable. Are the consequences possibly even for the chancellor.

When clichés are true, then Blackberry phones are above suspicion. The target group of the devices mainly include companies with managers and employees in the fine thread. Terrorism Risk: virtually non-existent. But that does not help the Canadian company apparently.

the mass of the NSA spying smartphones are apparently also affected. As the “Mirror” reported that U.S. intelligence is able to read most devices, including Apple iPhone and Blackberry and Google’s Android operating system. For the NSA, the market is highly lucrative. In the U.S. alone, 130 million people have a smartphone.

The NSA is said to have set up for each major manufacturer a special working group. The experts will clear the way to the personal data of the phone users. When you penetrate this iPhone into the computer with which the mobile phone is synchronized. Special programs allow it access to 38 different iPhone applications, including the service cards, photos, Facebook and voice mail.


Clerks in crisis

The Chancellor is on BlackBerry. The Chancellor relies on BlackBerry. (Photo: REUTERS)

Hardly anything is still safe, not even on the smartphone. A particularly Bash is probably for BlackBerry. The Canadian company is in bad shape. The market for business although it has long dominated, but the connection to the new smartphone trends largely missed. Your model Q10 is considered dead stock. While rival Nokia could outsource its mobile phone business to Microsoft, it is desperately looking for a buyer. Into the midst of crisis is now bursting at the next terrible news. Devices are obviously not nearly as safe as thought

It was just the safety of your own email system to which you were always proud to BlackBerry. The data center with the company’s own enterprise servers back up user data with a special encryption technology and an additional firewall. This system was uncrackable, tap the device absolutely sure the company always insisted. All tests how long it would take to crack it would, calculated in millions of years – so impressed joking users in internet forums

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programmed “back door”

The company loosened in the past repeatedly by itself its security hurdles. In India, there was the fear that extremists could exploit the security technology. Under pressure from the Indian government finally allowed the BlackBerry 2011, the surveillance of e-mail traffic of private clients. Also in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to fit the services to the national security requirements. New trouble there was in July this year, as experts accused the company to submit the e-mail access to servers in Canada.

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    attention is likely to follow the new developments in the Federal Chancellery. This summer, all federal agencies were equipped with new and specially encrypted phones. Even Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has ever used a Nokia E63 is switched. All officials ranging from the simple to the Chancellor, received from BlackBerry devices.

    Source: n-tv.de

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