BlackBerry is known for the security it provides to its customers' communications using encryption. To put it better, it was the first mobile device maker to use end-to-end encryption for the security of its customers.
But a new one report αποκάλυψε ότι η εταιρεία έχει διαθέσει ένα master key backdoor στις αρχές επιβολή του νόμου από το 2010.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police Police (RCMP) has been in possession of a Master Key to decrypt BlackBerry devices since 2010, according to a new report from Vice.
The report shows that Canadian police used the master key to monitoring and the decryption of over 1 million messages sent using the supposedly secure BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) service in a 2-year criminal investigation.
During the duration during the trial of a 2011 murder case, the RCMP revealed that they were able to successfully unlock and read approximately 1 million messages sent between BlackBerry devices using the "appropriate decryption key."
How did RCMP have the Master Key?
Neither the RCMP nor the prosecutor revealed how the police found Master Decryption to be able to decipher messages sent through the BlackBerry Internet Service.
However, the most reasonable answer (though it is a case) is that BlackBerry itself gave the federal authorities of Canada the access they wanted.
But besides that, the most important question is whether RCMP still has the key.
Following the closure of Project Clemenza, an RCMP investigation into a mafia assassination, BlackBerry changed its Master Key. But it is believed that RCMP still has the ability to decrypt BBM messages.
