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GUADEC: Danny O'Brien on privacy, encryption, and the desktop

GUADEC: Danny O'Brien on privacy, encryption, and the desktop

Posted Aug 4, 2010 20:27 UTC (Wed) by klbrun (subscriber, #45083)
In reply to: GUADEC: Danny O'Brien on privacy, encryption, and the desktop by JoeBuck
Parent article: GUADEC: Danny O'Brien on privacy, encryption, and the desktop

I think that France decided not to use RIM for government communications because they discovered the NSA was listening in.


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GUADEC: Danny O'Brien on privacy, encryption, and the desktop

Posted Aug 7, 2010 13:18 UTC (Sat) by Trou.fr (subscriber, #26289) [Link]

No, this is not true. Blackberries are forbidden because they are not _sufficient guarantees_ that the communications are secure, which is a completely different statement than "NSA is listening to it".

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