A lot of governments and corporations block Dropbox and the like as these services are hosted in the USA. Patriot act strikes again.

To do that they'd have to first brute force the full disk encryption we have on our devices. Security in depth, don't rely on one layer alone.

Anyway, if someone has physical access to your device, plus time and/or money, then it's game over.

Of course we have our own BES. So yes, it is secure as we own everything about it and, regarding the BES, know where every packet goes.

No it does not do this "sends everything through Canada BES servers. Or sometimes has the traffic take a side trip through something like a Saudi scanner depending on what country you are in." and if you can list your sources that would be great.

Actual sources though, not an unsubstantiated blog post. Oh you are making random stuff up? OK then, off you go.

This. If you leave your devices set to a 4 digit pin then really you are asking for trouble.

Setting your device to alpha-numeric-symbol and enforcing it through exchange or MDM is the way to go.

Also set your devices to auto-wipe after 10 password attempts to prevent brute force or guessing at poor passwords.

The reason you wouldn't stick your head out for the iPhone yet is you don't know enough, do your own research and don't go on 'news you heard some time ago.'

That's not quite true. The BB is a secure smart-ish-phone which makes it ideal for corporate/government use. It's locked down and encrypted.

Don't get on your platform high horse or anything, something happening too often here (get off my lawn) but ...

Android isn't secure at all. Until Android phones start coming with hardware based encryption we can't use them, it basically rules them out at the first stage. People are pushing to use Android but it is a no go right now. Same for Windows Phone 7, no hardware encryption = no use, although no-one is pushing for WP7.

We're slowly moving to the iPhone 4 through Exchange and a MDM, people want to use the iPhone, we can configure it just as strongly as the BB and it has AES 256 hardware encryption. It's a win-win.

The company that sells this kit only sells to governments/military, not joe public. I'm not making assumptions on who wants to listen in, just letting you know how it is done.

Everything you just said. +5 or in eBay language AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA+++++

This isn't Kotaku or The Sun, this is /. How about some thought put in by the editors posting the story? Even if it is just 5 mins of checking, it would help.

"Skype has proprietary encryption that still has not been beaten"

Not beaten? Hate to break it to you (punne) but you can buy, if you are a government/military entity, off the shelf kits that do a wonderful man in the middle attack on Skype.

So get off your common people high horse and learn more.

My reasoning is summed up nicely by this post - http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2138492&cid=36073566

It isn't - http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2138492&cid=36073566

Yes, it is. But why wait, or even ask Apple, when /. can run an anti-Apple piece.

Remember kids, if you want page hits slag off Apple, works every time.

I'm sorry you find yourself in that situation with your parents, and I hope it changes for you someday. Yes it is impossible to live that way, you can keep a lid on it for a while but it's always there and accepting it is hard, coming out is harder still.

I hope you accept a virtual GQ hug. Not that it counts for much, but feel free to email if you want to chat.

You sound like you have a great mom, congrats. If only your email was public, I'm very close to you here in Victoria and in a similar position.

You quoted Duke Nukem? You clearly win my dear sir, I cannot compete with intelligence at your level.

Oh I've gone from fan-boy to fanboi? Hurrah, you have managed to upgrade me. Hopefully without injuring yourself.

*Stares at hand built (hand put-together? I dunno, it's not like I designed anything inside it) PC running W7 64/Ubuntu, is typing on a ThinkPad X61 running Vista, notices MacBook Pro happily sitting in the corner, printing out my fanboi badge*

Oh wait. I run Vista, Win7 64, Linux and OSx. Arg, can I still be an Apple fanboi? Please??