The BBC is reporting that the French government has mandated that it’s officials are not allowed to use Blackberries because of fears that foreigners could spy on them.
Workers in the French president’s and prime minister’s office have been told their e-mails risk falling into foreign hands, Le Monde newspaper reports.
Rim responded by saying that the US National security Agency did not have the ability to to view the content of any data communication sent through Blackberry servers.
This is the problem! Much of the data that comes from Canada heads south to hit major US backbones (much of which is owned by AT&T). This data–once on the United States soil–is subject the undisclosed spying policy and procedure as I’ve said previously.
AT&T is largely responsible for letting the NSA and perhaps other agencies spy on American’s and it recently announced that it would also start spying traffic for copyrighted content to help record labels in their illegal lawsuits against ordinary innocent hardworking American people. That basically to me means that not only does AT&T think our constitutional right to privacy is less important than security and politics, but our right to privacy is less important than their income.
The French officials are right to be concerned. We live in a world where security engineers get the top dollar from government agencies for disclosing flaws in operating systems so that the government can get into people’s PC’s that are "terrorists" I would assume.
The only other thing I can offer to those of you who don’t trust the government anymore is a product called Peer Guardian, it blocks all of the known spying locations out there. I don’t think it does a whole lot of good with the dirt tactics employed at the NSA.
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