"Remove It Before You Use The Phone!" Edward Snowden 2022

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[–]LarrySwinger2 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Do all of these exploits rely on rooting the phone? I use a(n unrootable) BlackBerry (a modern one with Android). I want to know if that means I don't have to worry about this.

[–]asterias[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

BlackBerry are supposed to be more secure, but weren't they obliged to give access to certain governments? I guess someone experienced with BlackBerry will have to give a definitive answer.

[–]LarrySwinger2 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes, they were, but that was about BBM i.e. they can access communications stored on their servers, just like with Prism. There are also exploits for all the older BlackBerries that use BlackBerry OS. I believe they can steal your data remotely if you're a target. That's something different, though, and didn't require any keys from BlackBerry. But they created a special, hardened BlackBerry for Obama when he was president, because of these exploits. BlackBerry was never as secure as we'd like to think. But all of this has nothing to do with the Android BlackBerries, so it doesn't answer my question.