[Cryptography] RCMP Had BlackBerry's Global Decryption Key since 2010

[Henry Baker]

At 05:05 PM 4/15/2016, Tom Mitchell wrote:
>On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 6:57 AM, Henry Baker <hbaker1 at pipeline.com> wrote:
>FYI --
>
>https://news.vice.com/article/exclusive-canada-police-obtained-blackberrys-global-decryption-key-how
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>Exclusive: Canadian Police Obtained BlackBerry's Global Decryption Key
>
>....
>Since this is a "global" key global laws may cause problems for some involved persons.
>
>What a tangle...

Now that the existence of this "Golden Key" has been made public, one can expect hackers & researchers to be pawing through old Blackberries looking for it.

Any bets on how long this search will take?

Perhaps in time for Crypto'16/Blackhat'16/Defcon'16 in August?