BlackBerry buys Merkel-phone technology – manager-magazin.de

 

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Hear someone with? The Federal Government relies on voice encryption software Secusmart as well as hardware from BlackBerry

The hardware they supply already, now they take over and the voice encryption technology: The Canadian smartphone maker BlackBerry takes Secusmart whose technology is also in the mobile phones of the Federal Government

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that it also with a Canadian Secusmart mother need to change anything. The crypto maps for encryption come from the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI). The German Telekom German authorities supplied with safe smart phones, it uses as a base Samsung devices

John Chen controls to -. Focus on data security

BlackBerry had once dominated the smartphone market, but lost connection to rivals such as Samsung and Apple with its iPhone. The market share slipped into the single-digit percentage range, high losses reinforced doubts about the survival of the group. The acting CEO since last fall John Chen tries to turn things around, especially with a focus on corporate customers and governments. Secusmart BlackBerry can complement its own range of secure communication channels to encrypted calls.

Secusmart had most recently in March a partnership with the telecom giant Vodafone announced to bring encrypted phone calls to the mass market. The idea is to offer encrypted calls via an app on various smartphone platforms. Other vendors have also such encryption apps in the program.

encryption was moved after the revelations about rampant espionage of intelligence, especially the American NSA in the foreground. Last fall, attended reports of a stir, according to which a mobile phone by German Chancellor Angela Merkel said to have been bugged for years by the U.S. Secret Service.

In this case, it was Merkel’s private cell phone. Secusmart always emphasized the encryption of the new government cell phones is safe. Even BlackBerry had repeatedly rejected reports that the NSA had cracked some of the security mechanisms of the Group.

la / dpa