Report: UK and US spies have cracked BlackBerry's BES encryption

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http://news.techworld.com/security/3467695/report-uk-and-us-spies-have-cracked-blackberrys-bes-encryption/

By Peter Sayer
Techworld
09 September 2013

The U.S. National Security Agency is able to read messages sent via a 
corporate BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES), according to a report by 
German news magazine Der Spiegel. The purpose of this spying is economic 
or political, and not to counter terrorism, the magazine hints.

The report, published in English on Monday, cites internal documents 
leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

Governments have long demanded that BlackBerry provide access to encrypted 
messages carried by its email and BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) services, to 
allow them to monitor for terrorist activity.

BlackBerry has complied in the case of its consumer-grade BlackBerry 
Internet Service (BIS), notably providing the Indian government with 
access to consumer messages. Indeed, Der Spiegel cited NSA documents 
claiming that since 2009, analysts have been able to see and read

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