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Originally Posted by Skybird
http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleto...-12286219.html
http://frank.geekheim.de/?p=2379
Blackberry as well. Chaos Computer Club Hamburg reports that during installation of Blackberry cellphones, Blackberry servers all by themselves access the customer's email servers and extract emails, which apparently get stored ion Blackberry servers then. This without noting the customer, making the action aware to the customer, or the company having anything to say about why this is being done, and having nothing to say about data protection as well.
Well, data protection obviously already is null and void.
Again, these emails then can easily be fetched of by government services. Which seems to get done in the countries of the sovcalled five-eyes alliance that are in strong cooperation with Prism.
Needless to say that the control of communication in the web is a demand by democratic as well as openly tyrannic governments as well, since the value of these communications for military rebellions and civil uprises as well as street protesters coordinating their actions has been demonstrated in events around the world since years. Not just Russia, China and Iran want a censoring of free communication via the web. Western governments, and as we learned in recent days once again: the EU want it as well.
Our enslavement advances. Slowly, creepingly, but it does. And people just smile and sit and watch. Life can be so comfortable when you peacefully agree to give up your freedom. Also, there is an effect of getting used to things. The next generation will not even know anymore why it should want to be free. It will most naturally take the whip and the microphone as symbols guaranteeing its "freedom". We already see it with today's young people, their carelessness for their private sphere regarding social services, and the lack of understanding of the need for protection from the state.
Once cash money coins and notes have been successfully abandoned, which already is psychologically prepared in Europe by preparatory policies, total digital vulnerability of its slave-citizens will pay off even more for the state. Think of taxing. Insurances cooperating with the state. Employers.
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I have to laugh at you for this
Seriously, you don't know how blackberry works?
Ok, let me explain. There is two ways of how email works. Push, and "pull". Traditionally, email worked by "pull". On early phones, like the famous Motorola V3, you had to open the email app to "check your mail". Aka, you have to manually check your email every once in a while.
The Blackberry revolutionized email. Email was "pushed" to you. Aka, like text messages, you get your emails sent to you after it gets sent. This allowed people to rapidly communicated back and forth through email, just like text messaging, but without the character limitation.
Blackberry's push email technology is achieved through their BES (blackberry enterprise server). What they do is, the BES server retrieves your mail from the mail server (Hotmail, gmail, yahoo, self hosted exchange, etc). Than, blackberry compresses your email and "pushes" it to your phone. BES technology later improved to include other ways of compressions like compressed web browsing and compressed app data access.
So blackberry's "secret sauce" is its BES server. But the problem is, for home users, you don't have a blackberry server in your basement. So to cater to home users, Blackberry and cellphone carriers run a BES server to provide your email service. so OF COURSE blackberry accesses and stores your email. It is written in the EULA when you start your blackberry! It is how blackberry works!
Have you wondered why cell phone carriers have "blackberry internet plans" but no "apple internet plan" or "Motorola internet plan"? Its because they need to run the BES server for you to make your blackberry work.
Blackberry is used by many organizations that require actual secure email. So the question is, how are they not worried that blackberry is accessing their email? These organizations use their own BES server, thus bypassing blackberry's servers and thus will not allow blackberry to access the emails.