BlackBerry hands over user data to help police ’kick ass,’ insider says - Technology & Science - CBC News
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Cette information ne date pas d’hier mais elle a été confirmée depuis. C’est dommage pour chacun qui croyait pouvoir utiliser le DTEC50 avec sa clé privée gravée dans le hardware, mais finalement ce « service » du producteur de smartphones constitue une backdoor plutôt qu’un gain en sécurité.
A specialized unit inside mobile firm BlackBerry has for years enthusiastically helped intercept user data — including BBM messages — to help in hundreds of police investigations in dozens of countries, a CBC News investigation reveals.
CBC News has gained a rare glimpse inside the struggling smartphone maker’s Public Safety Operations team, which at one point numbered 15 people, and has long kept its handling of warrants and police requests for taps on user information confidential.
A number of insiders, none of whom were authorized to speak, say that behind the scenes the company has been actively assisting police in a wide range of high profile investigations
But unlike many other technology companies, which regularly publish transparency reports, it is not clear how many requests BlackBerry receives each year, nor the number of requests it has fulfilled.
Insiders say, for example, that BlackBerry intercepted messages to aid investigators probing the political scandals in Brazil that are dogging suspended President Dilma Rousseff. The company also helped authenticate BBM messages in Major League Baseball’s drug investigation that saw New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez suspended in 2014.