RIM, maker of the BlackBerry mobile phone, has told the Reg that Etisalat is talking tosh and the BlackBerry remains a secure platform, after the United Arab Emirates operator “patched” the device with surveillance software.
The “patch” which Etisalat sent out last week was actually a surveillance application, designed to make copies of received e-mails, despite the operator’s claims that the software was designed to ease 2G to 3G handoffs. RIM has sent The Register a statement making it clear that such an operator-issued application simply could not interact with low-level radio functionality, and that there aren’t any problems on Etisalat’s network that needed fixing anyway.
Read more in The Register.