「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」 | (aka: 鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma)@sh.itjust.works to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 10 hours agoDoes anyone else also have this weird feeling that maybe governments can already break into smartphones and this whole "we can't break into it" they tell the public is a facade?message-squaremessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up160arrow-down13
arrow-up157arrow-down1message-squareDoes anyone else also have this weird feeling that maybe governments can already break into smartphones and this whole "we can't break into it" they tell the public is a facade?「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」 | (aka: 鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma)@sh.itjust.works to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 10 hours agomessage-square17fedilink
minus-squareBrkdncr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·10 hours agoMany years ago go I worked for a company as their BlackBerry admin. I also managed their other smartphones. They started an office in Russia. The Russian government wouldn’t let you use a BlackBerry server, they only let you turn over your creds to a server managed by the phone operator. I assumed this was because they wanted to see those emails. They didn’t need to do this for ActiveSync or imap devices like iPhone Android or windows phones.
Many years ago go I worked for a company as their BlackBerry admin. I also managed their other smartphones. They started an office in Russia.
The Russian government wouldn’t let you use a BlackBerry server, they only let you turn over your creds to a server managed by the phone operator.
I assumed this was because they wanted to see those emails.
They didn’t need to do this for ActiveSync or imap devices like iPhone Android or windows phones.