The United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia are going to ban the use of BlackBerry cell phones for security reasons because they cannot monitor encrypted data.
I think what they're doing is BS. If for security reasons the United States banned the use of BlackBerrys, all the people out there that have them (which is quite a lot) would be outraged as well as other smartphone users because they fear that they may be next. We have laws, of course, that prevent this from happening, and the governments overseas are different, but why wait this long to do it? Israel banned the iPad almost as soon as it came out for security reasons. The BlackBerry has been around for years, so why act on it now?
Read the BBC article and make your own opinion.
Article can be found here.
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