Blackberry Ban For French Elite
Today on “How Paranoid Are You?” watch contestants as they compete against each other to see how freaky paranoid they can get! Be sure to catch the schizo round where the prizes really rack up.
Sigh.
From the BBC:
French government officials have been ordered not to use handheld Blackberry devices amid fears that foreigners could spy on them, reports say.
Workers in the French president’s and prime minister’s office have been told their e-mails risk falling into foreign hands, Le Monde newspaper reports.
France’s SGDN security service is worried because Blackberries use US- and UK-based servers, the paper says.
But some officials are flouting the ban and using them in secret, it adds.
“They tried to offer us something else to replace our Blackberries but it doesn’t work,” one unnamed official told the paper.
[tags]Mobile Security, Blackberry, Cell Phone, French Government[/tags]
Posted by Dave Lewis
on June 20, 2007. Filed under Email,Wireless.
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rybolov
June 20, 2007 at 10:04 am
I thought the servers were in Canada. Maybe that’s just the company HQ.
Rob Boberts
June 20, 2007 at 12:31 pm
The servers are in Canada, down the street from their HQ. The news reports are wrong, and/or le gouvernement de la France se trouve.
rybolov
June 20, 2007 at 4:56 pm
“US, Canada, All you North Americans look the same to us, with your plastic cheese and grape juice that you call wine.” =)
Dave Lewis
June 21, 2007 at 7:31 am
Ha!
Here is more on this story from MSNBC.
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