BlackBerrys considered unacceptably risky in France


I wonder what the reaction of French BlackBerry users will be

This one makes me think.

BlackBerry handhelds have been called addictive, invasive, wonderful - and now, a threat to French state secrets.

French government security experts have reportedly banned - with mixed success - the use of BlackBerries in ministries and in the presidential palace, for fear that they are vulnerable to snooping by U.S. intelligence.

"The risks of interception are real. It is economic war,'' daily Le Monde quoted Alain Juillet, in charge of economic intelligence for the government, as saying. With BlackBerries, there is ``a problem with the protection of information,'' he said.

If the French BlackBerry users are anything like their American counterparts in New York and Los Angeles, I suspect we haven't heard the last of this.

I thought about a BlackBerry before I bought my Palm TX. My biggest problem with RIM then was keeping my all my information on a server that I didn't control. Odd how the French experts reached that same conclusion.

Or maybe not so odd after all.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Mon - June 25, 2007 at 11:20 AM  Tag


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