"Canada's federal police force, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, has been decrypting BlackBerry Messenger messages since 2010, according to papers uncovered in a joint investigation conducted by Vice News and Motherboard following a two-year fight by government lawyers to keep that information from being released.
BlackBerry has long pointed to its supposedly unbreakable encryption for BBM. Now it appears that the company only had one encryption key for most of its individual users, and that the company kept the key. The RCMP was able to begin decrypting messages after the company shared the key with the police agency."
Media Probe Reveals BlackBerry Shared BBM Encryption Key With RCMP
BlackBerry has long pointed to its supposedly unbreakable encryption for BBM. Now it appears that the company only had one encryption key for most of its individual users, and that the company kept the key. The RCMP was able to begin decrypting messages after the company shared the key with the police agency."
Media Probe Reveals BlackBerry Shared BBM Encryption Key With RCMP
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