[silk] Blackberry in India

Sarad AV jtrjtrjtr2001 at yahoo.com
Sat Sep 27 10:01:09 PDT 2008


It could be, but only for those who own a Blackberry.  If one can gain access and place listening devices, they could put something else as well to frame the person. that should be easier.

Sarad.

--- On Sat, 9/27/08, Peter Gutmann <pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz> wrote:

> From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz>
> Subject: Re: [silk] Blackberry in India
> To: cypherpunks at al-qaeda.net, jtrjtrjtr2001 at yahoo.com
> Date: Saturday, September 27, 2008, 6:03 PM
> >It doesn't appear that they cracked it in the sense
> of cryptanalysis. it sounds more in the direction that they
> got the key.
> >
> >there was some discussion on it here
> >http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/05/blackberry_givi_1.html
> 
> It could be almost anything.  Here's another scenario:
> government MIB's break 
> into the targets house and illegally plant listening
> devices.  In order to 
> explain where they got the information in court, they say
> they got it by 
> decrypting Blackberry traffic via a process that's
> secret for notional 
> security purposes.
> 
> Peter.





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