Blackberry — thefinancially flounderingsmartphone maker that prides itself onend - to - end encryption — may have at last take on its match in the form of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police . Motherboardreports that the RCMP , as part of a criminal investigation , was able to intercept and decrypt more than a million Blackberry messages over the course of two years .
The job with Blackberry ’s security scheme is that every non - corporal phone it manufactures use a single encoding winder . dumbfound that key makes untangle messages from just about any Blackberry gimmick a zephyr , and that ’s on the nose what the RCMP did — though the Mounties have yet to disclose that they have the key or how precisely they got it .
Unlikeprevious Blackberry decrypts , which required forcible access to the phones in ordering to work , the Mounties ready up a server in Ottawa that simulates a substance ’s designate recipients and then use that planetary Francis Scott Key to decode them . In this instance , the server and key were used to assemble evidence about the killing of criminal offence family member Sal “ the Ironworker ” Montagna in an investigating dubbed Project Clemenza .
Although their investigation has end , the RCMP can still record message mail by almost every Blackberry equipment . And even Blackberry changes their global encryption key , who ’s to say whatever methods the RCMP employed the first time wo n’t operate again ? Blackberry , by the feel of it , just ran out of selling points .
We reached out to Blackberry for input , and we ’ll update when it responds .
[ Motherboard ]
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