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collide.six People shouldn't be too worried about the SSL vulnerability as most vendors already have or are working on updates to their applications to address it. The exploit requires a compromised system which is very unlikely on an smartphone.
Blackberry themselves have had their fair share of security vulnerabilities and exploits with their software and devices over the years, literally dozens and dozens. I know because I've spent a lot of time patching and performing other fixes to our BES servers and devices. A lot of people think Blackberry security is the light years better than anything else and that other smartphones totally lack any security. That's just simply not the case. Any iPhone has strong email encryption from the server to the phone using HTTPS, which 99% of the secure websites run on by the way, like your bank and credit card company. An iPhone also has strong AES device encryption so all emails on the phone are encrypted. There are over 500,000 apps in the apps store and only a few have been found to be malicous and those were immediately removed. Apple has a good security model around it it works well and is trusted.
By the way with the release of iOS 5 Apple has added about 4 or 5 more things that work with ActiveSync and Exchange.
You know things are bad when your CEO has to apologize publicly and beg for forgiveness so what's left of their customer base doesn't jump ship. Yep, frankly I believe I could implement a network infrastructure better than RIM has. I would've decentralized it and used something thats already out there and has tons of redundancy and reliablility already built in, something that has been time tested and proven itself well over the last 30 years. Its called the internet. RIM's infrastuctre model is outdated and stale just like their phones.