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Re:Feds Bust CEO Allegedly Selling Custom BlackBerry Phones ... by gagabity on Sunday March 11, 2018 @07:04PM (#16565208)
Raises a lot of questions, how is PGP more secure than your normal EndToEnd Encrypted messenger? Why are the Feds afraid of one but not the other?
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Re:Feds Bust CEO Allegedly Selling Custom BlackBerry Phones ... by lettuce on Sunday March 11, 2018 @07:47PM (#16565355)
PGP might be easier to clone (duplicate private/master keys?) without tipping off the other party like many end-to-end messengers do when you switch devices.

B told Justice Janice Dillon that he sent a message to Kim on a Blackberry that had been cloned from one belonging to the UN associate.

http://vancouversun.com/news/crime/former-gangster-says-dhak...

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Re:Feds Bust CEO Allegedly Selling Custom BlackBerry Phones ... by msh on Monday March 12, 2018 @05:10AM (#16566907)
According to the article the company had been in operations since 2007 or there about, I dont think there was any end2end encrypted mobile messenger back then and they have properly just continued what worked for them.
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