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Former NSA lawyer: the cyberwar is between tech firms and the US government | Technology | The Guardian

He claimed that by encrypting user data Blackberry had limited its business in countries that demand oversight of communication data, such as India and the UAE and got a bad reception in China and Russia.

File this under FUD. Encryption didn’t sink Blackberry. The iPhone did.

Author JeffPosted on November 5, 2014June 11, 2016Format Link

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