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Re:Signs of Secret Phone Surveillance Across London by gherkin0 on Friday January 15, 2016 @01:49PM (#10911243)
> The fact that BlackBerry designed around this early on leads me to suspect (as an outside observer with an imagination) that mass metadata collection was known by folks in industry back in the 90s.

Wouldn't a simpler explanation be that it was just over-designed for 90s-era threats in a way that hardened it to some more recent threats?

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Re:Signs of Secret Phone Surveillance Across London by Spooky23 on Friday January 15, 2016 @11:00PM (#10914181)
It is definitely a simpler explanation.

Consider however that none of their US based competitors managed to do address those threats in a meaningful way.

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