Nope.  BES logs most things...so long as it's enabled *and* it crossed the
BES network.  PIN and BBM never leave RIM's infrastructure.

 - WJR


On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 11:13, Jeff Brown <[email protected]> wrote:

> I thought BES logged EVERYTHING.  BBM messages are not stored in some log
> file on BES?
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 11:06 AM, William Robbins <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Yes, BlackBerry Messenger is scrambled from end-to-end as it uses PIN
>> messaging as its transport. All traffic is over RIM's infrastructure
>> exclusively, and never leaves it.
>> All BlackBerry devices share a common encryption key which is used for
>> this purpose.
>>
>> The qualifier to this is it's secure so long as PIN encryption is
>> enabled.  This isn't quite the article I had in mind, but this should show
>> you where to verify...it's on by default.
>>
>>
>> http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=KB13016
>>
>>  - WJR
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 10:59, Steve Ens <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Just wondering what the general consensus here is with Blackberry
>>> Messenger.  I need to draft a note to staff confirming that BBM's are secure
>>> and that there is no way that IT or anyone else can access them from the BES
>>> or BESX console.  From what I've read is that they are much more secure than
>>> text messaging in that they are encrypted.
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