GCHQ intercepted foreign politicians' communications at G20 summits

Re:GCHQ intercepted foreign politicians' communications at G... by Spearchucker on Sunday June 16, 2013 @05:28PM (#5890069)

If the debacle between RIM, India and I think it was Saudi Arabia a year or two ago is anything to go by[1], then it's not a back door as much as giving out the private key to the servers located in a country. India and Saudi got those keys on the threat of disallowing Blackberries in their respective countries. I remember thinking at the time that surely the US would have the keys to US servers.

[1] Whenever there's doubt, there is no doubt.

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Re:GCHQ intercepted foreign politicians' communications at G... by lambada on Sunday June 16, 2013 @06:25PM (#5890291)

My understanding is that if the phone is linked with a self-hosted Enterprise Server (BES, not hosted by RIM) then RIM don't actually have the keys to hand over.

I would have assumed that a government would have enough cash (and sense) to purchase and run its own BES software, keeping the keys out of RIMs hands.

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