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While BlackBerry phones used by Polish diplomats, are equipped with an additional cryptographic infrastructure, it does not mean that our secrets are 100 percent. safe. As is clear from the documents released by “The Guardian” by Edward Snowdens, Anglo-Saxon service could break into the similar phones already in 2009

“We will seek clarification as to the activity of the NSA (National Security Agency and the U.S. – ed) to Polish and European Union” – wrote on Twitter on Monday, the Minister Radoslaw Sikorski. Ministry of Foreign Affairs no signs of surveillance of our citizens by the NSA or the British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). Both institutions on a large scale eavesdropping EU diplomats, the British agency inwigilowa?a them especially on the eve of the G20 summit in London in 2009

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This does not mean that our diplomats can sleep peacefully without worrying about the security of the information. U.S. President Barack Obama to the wall by journalists during a visit to Tanzania, said that U.S. agents are interested in the activities of the Allies. – All European and Asian intelligence services are doing the same thing: trying to understand the world and use sources other than the “New York Times” and NBC News. In Europe, they are people who are interested in may not be what you had for breakfast, but at least this what I’m going to talk to the leaders – he said.

Radoslaw Sikorski is a known fan of BlackBerry phones. He furnished the defense ministry officials did not when he managed during the rule of Law and Justice. Now use them also Polish diplomats. The cost of buying BlackBerry 1700 terminals and the implementation of appropriate infrastructure in 2009-2010 amounted to almost 2.5 million z?. – The technology used by the BlackBerry is one of the most secure against cyber attacks from all available in the market – and in an interview with the DGP Rik Ferguson, an expert for Trend Micro Security. Many governments, however, there is no such certainty.

France for fear of espionage has banned its diplomats to use the camera of the brand. Doubts about the equipment of our officials in the BlackBerry phones have been the head of Law and Justice Ministry of Interior in the government of Ludwik Dorn, who in late 2010 announced an official inquiry. “According to the Cyber ??Security Centre is doubtful that secure communication in its entirety and Research In Motion. The effect is that the risk of unauthorized access to information transmitted in the system was transferred to the entity “- said in response to the then Deputy Defense Minister Marcin Idzik.

RIM’s servers, among others, in the U.S. and the UK office is located and in Canada. Services of all these countries closely cooperate with each other in the so-called. network also connects the Five Eyes agencies in Australia and New Zealand. “Guardian” and suggests that the Canadian Communications Security Service (CSEC), the local equivalent of the NSA and GCHQ, helped get e-mails exchanged by the diplomats of the G20 via BlackBerry. “Messages were delivered during the G20 analysts in near real time” – says one of the disclosed by the newspaper show the logo CSEC. Information were placed after the British minister.

RIM did not refer directly to these revelations. “We believe 100 percent. BlackBerry superior security systems. They do not include any rear gate “- said the company only. “Cyberspace is now (after the attacks of September 11th – ed) theater of war, and the Five Eyes agencies are the main actors involved in the campaign against transnational cyber cyber threats” – says retired General James Cox in the report for CDFAI, one of the Canadian think tanks. Marcin Idzik argued that “the level of information security in the system can be increased by implementing their own infrastructure cryptographic protection.”

asked the Foreign Ministry spokesman Marcin Bosacki whether such additional data encryption feature phones diplomats. – Our communication is sufficiently secret secret. I will not be publicly presented the details, but enough to protect our call – said the head of the press office of the minister. – We do not know what exactly is installed, so it is difficult to assess the effectiveness of the software – suits us Rik Ferguson.

In the past, our Foreign Ministry, however, there have been cases quite lenient treatment of the protection of the transmission of classified information by diplomats. In October 2012, the DGP revealed that representatives of the Republic of Belarus in the new premises of the embassy does not have a firm secret. According to the Law on the protection of classified information that it must be stored and processed documents marked “secret” or “top secret” (they can not be sent via BlackBerry). Such clauses are stamped documents such disclosure could worsen relations with Belarus or hinder the work of our intelligence services on its territory. “The facility has the connectivity and implicit links, which allow for such conditions in existing legislation,” – wrote us the representative of the Foreign Ministry press office.