Originally Posted by
berryvic Hi everyone, it's Victoria from the BBM team at BlackBerry. We’ve seen this article and we are working on correcting any inaccuracies, and at the very least shedding better light on some of the info from the article.
There are a few really important points being made on this thread so far. One is that when it comes to consumer messaging, people are often more concerned with privacy and protection of personal info than security.... We are very much about putting control of personal information back into our users' hands. We shouldn't be able to share your personal information with other people, just because they have you in a contact list, thus the PIN (or email or NFC or barcode, if you prefer) for inviting and sharing. You should be able to decide if you want to BBM and chat with someone, so we have a double opt-in. We let you decide what Channels you want to follow or want info on. We give options for users to choose how they want to see updates - all, contacts, or just channels. And we layer this on the security we have in BBM. I will circle back with more info on that in greater detail, but we are fact checking first.
For the enterprise, we offer a variety of services and policies to help them manage BBM and with BBM Protected we will offer enhanced encryption as a policy for regulated comms. (Best part? One instance of BBM gives you regulated level encryption and comms for your internal contacts, while still giving access to external contacts with our regular levels of security and control.) We also have policies around logging and auditing already for compliance industries and highly competitive IP industries. We get that they have those needs and we work to provide options to them and their employees.
We're not slowing down and we're continuing to look at the needs of all of our users, in all walks of their lives.
Again, I will share more as I have it. Thanks for your continued support. I'm @berryvic on twitter and I'm vberry@blackberry dot com (I am trusting the CrackBerry community with my email and I'm pretty conservative about that usually, even though I'm in PR) and you can always reach out to me. I may not always have an answer and I may not always respond as quickly as you would like, but I always read my emails (on my BlackBerry - how could I not???).