http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/67156 08.12.2005 According to a report in Wirtschaftswoche, the Bundeswehr will not, for the time being, be using Blackberry devices made by Canada's Research in Motion (RIM) for its top-ranking political and military officers. The magazine is reporting that Germany's Defense Ministry has canceled a major order with T-Mobile for security concerns. Anzeige At the beginning of October, Wirtschaftswoche had already made public some security concerns that the German Bureau for Security in Information Technology (BSI) had about the e-mail PDA. According to the report, the BSI complained that all of the e-mail traffic went through a data center in Great Britain, so that British security authorities and the Secret Service would have access to all connection data and content, which they could then use for economic espionage. RIM responded that it was not possible to send e-mail data from RIM servers to third parties because this data was not saved on the company's computers, but was only passed on. In addition, the provider explained that the data were sufficiently encrypted with AES or triple DES algorithms. RIM claims that it does not even have a way itself to tap its customers' e-mail traffic. In the meantime, the company has contracted the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology to test the security of Blackberry technology; in addition, BSI has also claimed that its own investigation has been partly misinterpreted. _________________________________________ Earn your Master's degree in Information Security ONLINE www.msia.norwich.edu/csi Study IA management practices and the latest infosec issues. Norwich University is an NSA Center of Excellence.
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