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Comment Re: Patent? (Score 2) 111

by cestmoa on Sunday April 05, 2015 @03:42PM (#49410953) Attached to: Swiss Launch of Apple Watch Hit By Patent Issue

To be exact, rÃteromanisch is not a Swiss German dialect, but a proper language for itself

RIM Announces BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet 184

Posted by Soulskill on Monday September 27, 2010 @05:52PM from the getting-into-the-game dept.

siliconbits writes "Today, at the BlackBerry Developers Conference in San Francisco, company President and co-CEO Mike Lazaridis kicked off the event with the widely-anticipated news that RIM is developing a tablet PC of its own. Called the BlackBerry Playbook, the device is a 'Flash-loving,' 'device-paring,' 'enterprise ready' tablet, says RIM, with a 7-inch screen. It is 9.7 millimeters thick and features a 1024x600 widescreen display. It also supports 1080p through HDMI and has a USB port." The tablet will run on a dual-core, 1GHz CPU and have 1GB RAM. Its browser will be WebKit-based, and the device will be running a brand new operating system developed by QNX software. The tablet won't have 3G access of its own when it launches, but will be able to tether to existing BlackBerry devices via Bluetooth.

Comment Re:Lesser evil? (Score 1) 182

by cestmoa on Saturday August 14, 2010 @02:35AM (#33249272) Attached to: Blackberry Gives India Access To Servers

Yes, to me it is believable. Reasons:
1) RIM uses AES, an open standard for which it is proven, that no master key exists
2) To generate the keys on the device and server, RIM uses SPEKE, an open standard to generate keys without ever transmitting it.
3) The moment RIM has the keys and this is getting public knowledge (and something like this would get out), the business model of RIM is dead

Comment Lesser evil? (Score 2, Informative) 182

by cestmoa on Saturday August 14, 2010 @01:11AM (#33248994) Attached to: Blackberry Gives India Access To Servers

I somewhat can understand the concern of law enforcement that a secure mail environement makes their job more difficult. On the other hand, giving access to the RIM infrastructure implies that you are no longer innocent until proven otherwise, but you are now suspect until your innocence is proven. BAD

While Internet Service and PIN2PIN messages seem to be encrypted with the same key for everybody, RIM always claimed that enterprise mail is encrypted with a unique key end to end from the enterprise server to the device and that nobody else has this key, specially not RIM. Enterprise mail solution is crypted with AES 256bit, so if this is true, your corporate mail should still be safe. And if you don't trust this, use S/MIME or PGP or don't use mobile corporate mail at all.

Anyway, this step does not increase the customer trust in the RIM solution, I really hope for a clear statement from RIM on this purpose.

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