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Originally Posted by sclitheroe
Yeah - BES, encryption, BBM, it's all a part of their messaging portfolio. Even BIS, as much as its sucks because its not BES, is reliable and works well. The whole RIM backend is pretty great.
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RIM's backend is very cool stuff. Knowing how it works, however, makes me believe that the idea they'll be allowing third-party devices access to it is a load of bollocks.
BBM works off the same idea as a PIN-to-PIN message (Peer to Peer message if you aren't familiar with BlackBerry). Each device has a unique PIN assigned to it at the factory, which is used to identify itself at the RIM infrastructure. These PINs also have linked to them encryption keys that reside on the handset, so that only messages intended for a specific handset can be read by it.
These third-party devices don't have PINs nor the appropriate encryption keys. To my mind, it would be an immensely huge undertaking to append the appropriate systems necessary to integrate third party devices into such a closed, secure system without compromising the security.