spyware on Blackberries

[Steven M. Bellovin]

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 bperformance enhancement patchb by the
UAE-based phone and internet service provider Etisalat, which issued
the patch for its 100,000 subscribers.

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		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb

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