This is not true.

BBM's (and text messages) CAN be read by IT.  

Just turn on logging on the BES.

 

 

 

From: William Robbins [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 12:18 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Blackberry Messenger

 

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&extern
alId=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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