Thread: BBC: Blackberry the only phone provider who won't allow government monitoring
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Default BBC: Blackberry the only phone provider who won't allow government monitoring
On Friday, January 1, 2016 at 10:27:18 PM UTC-5, BTR1701 wrote:
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RichA 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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