France extends BlackBerry ban in government - Security Threat!


Seven million people worldwide may be addicted to them but the French government has said “non” to Le BlackBerry.


They’re not sending. They’re receiving.

Seven million people worldwide may be addicted to them but the French government has said “non” to Le BlackBerry, fearing US intelligence agents could be snooping on state secrets.

The concern is that information sent from a BlackBerry gets routed via servers in the United States and Britain, and that this poses “a problem with the protection of information”.

Research In Motion, the company that makes the handheld devices, poured cold water on the French fears, saying there was no way that the US National Security Agency could see the content of messages that were transmitted .

But Paris is clearly not convinced. France’s General Secretariat for National Defence first declared the ban on BlackBerrys 18 months ago but recently had to send out another reminder.

Would an American corporation actually lie about cooperating with our government to spy on us? Couldn’t be. Right?

Posted: Thu - June 21, 2007 at 06:13 AM