From perry@piermont.com Fri Jul 6 02:31:47 2018 From: "Perry E. Metzger" To: cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org Subject: Re: spyware on Blackberries Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2018 02:31:47 +0000 Message-ID: <172289037504.3849117.7521502673143543275.generated@mail.pglaf.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============2826939039788467432==" --===============2826939039788467432== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable "Steven M. Bellovin" writes: > http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired27b/~3/CFV8MEwH_rM/ > > A BlackBerry update that a United Arab Emirates service provider pushed > out to its customers contains U.S.-made spyware that would allow the > company or others to siphon and read their e-mail and text messages, > according to a researcher who examined it. > > The update was billed as a b performance enhancement patchb=1D by the > UAE-based phone and internet service provider Etisalat, which issued > the patch for its 100,000 subscribers. > > ... An update: RIM confirms to its customers that the update was spyware pushed on them by their own carrier. http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/etisalat-blackberry-update-was-indeed-spyw= are-rim-provides-a-so/ Perry --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo(a)metzdowd.com ----- End forwarded message ----- --=20 Eugen* Leitl leitl http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE --===============2826939039788467432==--