Blackberry Z10 - no BIS = no secure email
I've been trying to find out what the absence of BIS on the new Z10 will mean. Here's an interesting article from The Register:
BIS, bash, bosh: El Reg solves BlackBerry 10 email bafflement ? The Register
So in other words, for non-BES users who before the Z10 would have to have had a BIS add-on from there service provider, the Z10 will access email like any other smartphone and not securely through BIS. This being the case - what is the difference between the Z10 and any other smartphone?
The whole point of Blackberries is SECURE E-MAIL. Remove that, the phone is just another smartphone.
Re: Blackberry Z10 - no BIS = no secure email
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b320 OK, so this article is from February 5, so not "news" at least not as far as tech news goes.
Also, despite what the article states, BlackBerry did NOT and could NEVER provide "end-to-end encrypted push email" (and BlackBerry never promised to do so) *through* BIS when dealing with other, mostly consumer, email systems. Think about it, a message sent from Gmail to Gmail, let's say BlackBerry devices are on both ends:
Exactly. I think the motto in the security industry has always been 'don't send sensitive data over email' anyway.