Servers for BlackBerry in the UK may be being tapped into, in order to steal information from private handsets, according to the London Evening Standard.France's national security services have warned that the wireless devices can be intercepted and have banned their use in the president's and prime minister's offices, and they are reported to have advised all government officials working in sensitive offices not to use Blackberry devices because "they use overseas servers, opening up an espionage risk."
The security services said BlackBerry's servers in this country and in the US can be used to gather state secrets. French oil company Total also warns staff from using a BlackBerry for "security reasons".
The insecurity of Blackberry servers was raised at the recent ASIS Advanced Physical Security Applications and Technology workshop in California, at which a US Secret Service delegate admitted that his organisation's Blackberry sets are still in boxes, awaiting back-shipping to the supplier due to unresolved data security vunlerabilities.
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