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BBC: Blackberry the only phone provider who won't allow government monitoring
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Jan 2, 2016, 11:19:28 AM1/2/16
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On Friday, January 1, 2016 at 10:27:18 PM UTC-5, BTR1701 wrote:
> Your Name <Your...@YourISP.com> wrote:
> > In article <1f301b84-9a82-4e8e...@googlegroups.com>,
> > RichA <rande...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34962361
> >>
> >> Apparently, all the other phone providers do, Apple, Samsung.
> >
> > *No* mobile phone maker allows "Government monitoring". It's the cell
> > phone signal provider that does the monitoring. The maker simply
> > provides the device. The "Government" can of course ask the phone maker
> > to unlock / decrypt a phone's content ... which is what Apple, so far,
> > does not want to do.
>
> It's not a matter of want. Apple simply *can't* decrypt customers' phones.
> They don't hold the decryption keys.
If its Blackberry, then which government? State? Federal? The UN, maybe? China, Iran or Russia or Israel?
> Your Name <Your...@YourISP.com> wrote:
> > In article <1f301b84-9a82-4e8e...@googlegroups.com>,
> > RichA <rande...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34962361
> >>
> >> Apparently, all the other phone providers do, Apple, Samsung.
> >
> > *No* mobile phone maker allows "Government monitoring". It's the cell
> > phone signal provider that does the monitoring. The maker simply
> > provides the device. The "Government" can of course ask the phone maker
> > to unlock / decrypt a phone's content ... which is what Apple, so far,
> > does not want to do.
>
> It's not a matter of want. Apple simply *can't* decrypt customers' phones.
> They don't hold the decryption keys.
If its Blackberry, then which government? State? Federal? The UN, maybe? China, Iran or Russia or Israel?
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