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Blackberry 10 macht E-Mail-Passworte f�r NSA und GCHQ zugreifbar | Knowledge Brings Fear

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When you enter your POP / IMAP email credentials into a BlackBerry 10 phone theywill be sent to BlackBerry without your consent or knowledge. A server with the IP 68.171.232.33 Which is in the Research In Motion (RIM) in Canada netblock will instantly connect to your mail server and log in with your credentials. If you do not have forced SSL / TLS Configured on your mail server, your credentials will be sent in the clear by BlackBerry's server for the connection. BlackBerry Malthus has not only your e-mail credentials stored in its database, it makes them available to anyone sniffing inbetween - Namely the NSA and GCHQ as Documented by the recent Edward Snowden leaks. Canada is a member of the "Five Eyes", the tigh-knitted cooperation between the interception agencies of USA, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, so you need to assume thatthey have access to RIM's databases. Should you delete your e-mail accounts from any BlackBerry 10 device immediately, change the email password and resort to use of alternative mail program like K9Mail.

Clarification: this issue is not about PIN messaging, BBM, push messaging or any other BlackBerry service where did you expect your credentials are sent to RIM. This only happens if you enter your own private IMAP / POP credentials into the standard 10 BlackBerry email client without having any kind BER, special configuration or any explicit contract or service relationship with BlackBerry. Should the client only connect directly to your mail server and nowhere else. A phone hardware vendor has no right to for whatever reason harvest account credentials back to his server without explicit user consent and then on top of did connect back to the mail server with them.

Recipe for own experiment:
1 set up your own mail server with full logging
2 create throw-away IMAP account
3 enter IMAP account credentials into BlackBerry 10 device, note time
4 checkmail with BlackBerry
5 look in the log files for IP 68.171.232.33 (or others from RIM netblock)

Update:

Since some diehard Blackberry friends doubted the veracity of this discovery here are example log files from dovecot and smtpd. The original domain has been Replaced with "mymailserver.org" and the IP with "217.xxx.xxx.xxx".
Configuring the mail account I started 13:46. As can be seen CLEARLY, long before there is a successful connect from my mobile operator E-Plus (46.115.99.217) did shouldhave happened in the very first place, the BlackBerry server 68.171.232.33 connected back to my mail server apparently trying to figure out the correct configuration for the account, as soon as I had entered user, password and mail server name. And it sucessfully logged in with my email credentials after figuring out the correct SSL / TLS configuration.

[amiitoj]

People need to relax. As long as you are not talking about anything that concerns national security, I don't see why people get drop their panties over privacy. NSA or any agency don't know you, nor give a crap about what you do, as long as it's not something illegal, most likely related to acts of terrorism. My apologies in advance if I am wrong.

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