[HIB]BlackBerry ban a 'security badge of honour'

Security experts say that banning BlackBerry data service in the United Arab Emirates smacks of political backlash and could be a testament to how hard it is to snoop on that network. "The BlackBerry security model is very different from other phones," said Kevin Mahaffey of Lookout mobile security firm. "It is end-to-end and the encryption is so strong nobody knows how to monitor it." Canada-based Research In Motion built its own platform for business customers that encrypts BlackBerry email messages and routes them in a way that keeps the data off limits from even telecom firms that carry the transmissions.

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