Comments on: RIM, etisalat, ’spyware’ row http://www.p2pnet.net/story/25664 p2pnet.net - reader powered Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:11:09 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Fausty http://www.p2pnet.net/story/25664/comment-page-1#comment-979629 Fausty Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:00:55 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/?p=25664#comment-979629 The RCMP has been running similar code for many years, in Canada - I've seen discovery documentation from US narcotics smuggling cases that make it 100% clear the much-vaunted "encryption" of the RIMM device is simply a Canadian "Clipper Chip." That is, it's closed-source crypto that's obviously backdoored for easy access by those who have political power - any crypto that's based on "trust us, it's great" assurances instead of open code review is all but guaranteed to be used in this way. The RCMP has been running similar code for many years, in Canada – I’ve seen discovery documentation from US narcotics smuggling cases that make it 100% clear the much-vaunted “encryption” of the RIMM device is simply a Canadian “Clipper Chip.” That is, it’s closed-source crypto that’s obviously backdoored for easy access by those who have political power – any crypto that’s based on “trust us, it’s great” assurances instead of open code review is all but guaranteed to be used in this way.

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