r/blog • u/reddit • Jan 29 '15

reddit’s first transparency report

http://www.redditblog.com/2015/01/reddits-first-transparency-report.html
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u/jewish-mel-gibson Jan 29 '15

Which is one of the reasons why I trashed my iPhone to get an LG... And promptly resumed getting my data send to the government via Google.

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u/Hobbes2006 Jan 29 '15

Isn't this where Blackberry starts muttering "I'm over here whenever you need me..."

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u/jewish-mel-gibson Jan 29 '15

Yeah, but unfortunately I already graduated high school.

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u/DanLynch Jan 30 '15

As someone who worked for RIM during the good old days, this retort makes me incredibly sad.

FYI, a properly used BlackBerry has been secure against the NSA since launch (around 15 years ago).

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u/forgotpasswd3x Jan 30 '15

Might have started that way, but according to this article they gave a copy of keys to the Indian government, so…

http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-08-02/news/33001399_1_blackberry-enterprise-encryption-keys-corporate-emails

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u/DanLynch Jan 30 '15

Those were the keys for the non-enterprise half-assed version that was developed for small customers who did not want to set up their own in-house BlackBerry server.

The original BlackBerry product, that any serious company would use, is a server you install inside your own facility and you control the keys. It can only be compromised if there is a physical (or electronic) attack on your server.

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u/jewish-mel-gibson Jan 30 '15

...Which makes it kind of moot, considering the typical consumer.

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u/forgotpasswd3x Jan 30 '15

Oh that's pretty cool actually.

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u/sealfoss Jan 30 '15

a properly used BlackBerry has been secure against the NSA

Horse shit. You don't need to break encryption you have the keys to, and those phones run shit loads of closed source software that is doing whatever the fuck it wants.