This is an interesing piece that showed up on Global today. A serious hard case was captured by the police in Quebec but, there is a twist. He was apparently caught via the use of tap on his Blackberry. While I cannot argue with the results I’m fairly certain a lot of people just had their sphincters tighten at the prospect that the beleaguered mobile device maker might be working with law enforcement.
From Global Montreal:
“In my experience, this is the first time police intercepted blackberry conversation,†says Marcel Danis, a criminal defence lawyer and organized crime expert.
It’s not clear how police obtained the information.
Desjardins’ home in Laval was one of the 14 locations where police carried out warrants.
His blackberry phone or those of his co accused may have been seized and searched, a fact the SDQ would neither confirm nor deny.
“We do not reveal our investigation methods,” Surete du Quebec Sgt. Ronald McInnis said.
So, the question that this raises is was the information obtained from a tap or a forensic capture of the device? I’m fairly certain that the defense council in this case will be hammering away at that very point.
I did notice that the article quoted (however briefly) a security practitioner from Quebec,
The Blackberry is a favourite of criminals because the messages are encrypted but security expert Claude Sarrasin told Global News that’s not true.
“It’s not because you don’t see it, that it’s not there.â€
Um, huh?
Then it dawned on me that the author of the article took a snippet out of context for the piece. So, regrettably it makes little sense in of itself. Also, the person quoted is Claude Sarrazin. I know that there will be spelling mistakes et cetera on our site but, I expect a little more attention to detail from folks that get paid to do this for a living.
More importantly, I will be very interested to read more about this case to see if te SDQ actually had a warrant.
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