[Cryptography] Canadian Police Had BlackBerry’s Global Decryption Key since 2010

Ron Garret ron at flownet.com
Mon Apr 18 15:45:31 EDT 2016


On Apr 15, 2016, at 5:05 PM, Tom Mitchell <mitch at niftyegg.com> 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
> 
> Exclusive: Canadian Police Obtained BlackBerry’s Global Decryption Key
> ....
> Imagine for a moment that everybody’s front door has the same key.  Now imagine that the police have a copy of that key, and can saunter into your living room to poke around your belongings while you’re out, and without your knowledge.
> 
> In the US this risks the "exclusionary rule”.

In theory perhaps, in practice not so much.  There are a lot of ways around the exclusionary rule, including parallel construction (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction) and the good faith exception.

rg

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