<story><title>BlackBerry hands over user data to help police &apos;kick ass,&apos; insider says</title><url>http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/blackberry-taps-user-messages-1.3620186</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JumpCrisscross</author><text>Searched Linkedin for people with titles containing &amp;quot;Public Safety Operations&amp;quot; and who work, or have worked, at Blackberry.&lt;p&gt;One of them is now the &amp;quot;Manager of Law Enforcement Operations&amp;quot; at Kik. She describes her job as involving creating and fostering &amp;quot;positive working relationships with law enforcement and government agencies worldwide,&amp;quot; and prides herself on &amp;quot;successfully manag[ing] large-scale projects from start to finish while hitting targets&amp;quot;. &lt;i&gt;Shudders.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s  amusing that the state has coerced private companies into running its apparatus. Has anybody studied the implicit &amp;quot;tax rate&amp;quot; across economies including such costs of regulation, compliance and state security?</text></comment>
<story><title>BlackBerry hands over user data to help police &apos;kick ass,&apos; insider says</title><url>http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/blackberry-taps-user-messages-1.3620186</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Sir_Substance</author><text>I really don&amp;#x27;t understand how RIM manages to consistently misunderstand their target market so badly.&lt;p&gt;Not that they have many (or any) fans left, but back when they were the bees knees, they were used by and often mandatory company phones for government departments and fortune 500 companies exactly because they were considered the apex of mobile security.&lt;p&gt;I know it&amp;#x27;s been a while since they were the apex of anything but jesus guys, at least pretend to try or something.</text></comment>