Posted on October 26, 2007, at 11:17 AM .
There are some unhappy seamen in the U.S. today, now that the Navy has locked down their BlackBerrys to some pretty rigorous standards. PIN-to-PIN messaging, GPS, the application loader and third-party program installations have all been restricted, and as usual users will have to cycle through alphanumeric passwords every 3 months. On top of that, after 5 unsuccessful log-ins the device gets locked down and local data erased. For extra security, BlackBerrys’ radio antennae will become deactivated whenever they’re hooked up to a desktop. To be fair, these aren’t incredibly tough standards to work with, especially for a military organization. It does, however, give corporate IT admins something to wave when their BlackBerry users complain about existing restrictions.
Posted on January 6, 2005, at 6:45 PM .
The Globe and Mail is reporting that emails and PIN-to-PIN messages have been turned over to the courts as evidence. This is very suprising especially when you consider one of the benefits of using a Blackberry is security and encryption of messages. Think twice before sending off nasty emails about the boss.
Here is a snippet of the article:
“In a lawsuit filed in the Ontario Superior Court, CIBC alleged that six former senior executives, including its one-time vice-chairman David Kassie, improperly recruited bank employees and took confidential bank data to their new company, Genuity Capital Markets.”
Read the rest…
