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

[John Levine]

>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?

Unless RIM is unusually incompetent, a very long time.  Why would they
use the same key in both directions?  Why would the master decryption
key used at the server be on any of the handsets?

R's,
John