serious trouble surviving Canadian company Blackberry has a major advantage – security their devices. The information sent by users of the BlackBerry is encrypted, and the protection is so good that many governments repeatedly threatened to ban selling BlackBerry devices. Government agencies demanded due to “public safety”, access to communication conducted via BlackBerry.
Unfortunately, Canadians have lost is their main asset. Spiegel journalists insist that the NSA had seen a secret document in which the agency reports that it is able to intercept and read your communications via iPhone, BlackBerry and Android devices. We also learn from it that the NSA has been set up special teams, whose job it is to deal with the security of each of these systems and gain access to data stored on mobile users.
In that paper we read, for example, that the NSA is able to use your computer, which is synchronized with the iPhone, so that you gain access to at least 38 functions of the iPhone.
Working for the NSA experts also admit that since 2009, can read text messages sent and received by users BLACKBERRY. We also read that at some point in 2009, the Agency had lost the opportunity to spy on BlackBerry users. It happened after the Canadians took over another company and changed the way of data compression. However, in March 2010 the British GCHQ poinfrormowa?a NSA that again gained access to the BlackBerry. NSA broke the BlackBerry email security, which is considered very safe.
consolation for smartphone users is the fact that the NSA documents show that spying is not done on a massive scale, the goal is carefully selected and in some cases are developed as individual techniques necessary to obtain the information sought by the NSA with a particular device. Burglaries took place without the knowledge of manufacturers.
Spiegel reports can become a nail in the coffin of the BlackBerry.
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