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Originally Posted by Barnes
It's secure as long as you don't do business in Saudi, UAE, India, Russia, Kuwait, China or any other country who will be demanding encryption keys in the next few weeks. It was rumoured that the US had them even before all these foreign countries started making waves.
Does BES support iMAP? Does the BIS always route all traffic through RIM servers, i.e gmail, twitter, facebook?
The new browser is a giant step forward though and by going with Webkit, they can leverage the open source community and Apple/Google to do all the heavy lifting.
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There’s a bit more to BB encryption that just email flow - the device itself is strongly encrypted, a claim that Android and iP4 can’t make right now - the iPhone encryption is apparently trivially easy to crack.
BES ensures end-to-end encryption of data, whereas BIS does not.
Apparently, RIM will not disclose the private keys for individual devices, which means that even overseas in affected countries, your data on your handheld is secure (whether they’d torture you for it is another question I suppose), up until you send/receive data, probably, at which point the regional governments/law enforcement agencies will be able to snoop.
The reality of the situation is that if you needed absolutely secure communications between your office and your phone, you’re screwed. The other phones don’t offer the same level of on-board encrypted storage, and RIM can no longer guarantee end-to-end encryption in certain countries.
So RIM is, by default, the most secure today. As more and more governments demand access however, they will increasingly also be the emperor with no clothes.