Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide

[Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Phil Regnauld <regnauld () nsrc org> wrote:

>        Correct - they need to transit at some point through the RIM servers.
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>        http://www.interworks.com/blogs/wlyles/2010/01/14/why-rim-outage-affects-users-corporate-bes
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>        That's just wrong on so many levels.

yet... people AND CORPORATIONS still use them... Hrm, one wonders how
plain-text-like the traffic is between endpoints? how much data is
there that could be used to identify the endpoints? "Look, jabley's
sure sending lots of traffic to capitan knight... maybe there's
something going on in jabley-land?"

just sayin'!