Re:BlackBerry cofounder Jim Balsillie is sounding the alarm ...
by throw0101a on Friday April 12, 2019 @09:25AM
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The word "willfully" is too strong.
Short of Apple and ( theoriginal) WhatsApp, I don't there was/is another major company that took encryption between devices as serious as RIM did: getting on the podium with bronze is not a bad accomplishment.
We can also thank them for helping move the ball forward with ECC encryption. They were taking crypto seriously before Apple and others even were in the game.
The fact that they didn't manage to get things perfect, or implement what we now call end-to-end encryption, shouldn't diminish the positive things they did.
Short of Apple and ( theoriginal) WhatsApp, I don't there was/is another major company that took encryption between devices as serious as RIM did: getting on the podium with bronze is not a bad accomplishment.
We can also thank them for helping move the ball forward with ECC encryption. They were taking crypto seriously before Apple and others even were in the game.
The fact that they didn't manage to get things perfect, or implement what we now call end-to-end encryption, shouldn't diminish the positive things they did.