Folks,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 2 August 2010 09:11, Peter Tomlinson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pwt@iosis.co.uk">pwt@iosis.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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- not just UAE but also Abu Dhabi have announced bans, with different dates for implementing<br></blockquote><div><br>I didn't listen to Today - but surely Abu Dhabi is the largest of the UA Emirates? The BBC News page (<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-10830485">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-10830485</a>) mentions Saudi instead. <br>
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Mary Hawking wrote:<br>
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I'm about to change from an ancient Nokia and have been considering Blackberry, iPhone and Android (not necessarily in that order): what are the security models of each, and do they depend on the handset or the network?<br>
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I.e. if I continue with O2 and get a Blackberry, does the handling of the messages depend on the device (Blackberry) or the network supplier (O2), and would it be different if I got an iPhone (or one of the Android phones) but still stayed with O2?<br>
</blockquote></div></div></blockquote><div><br>It rather depends (unfortunately, for the non-techies amongst us). If you run your own email server and pick mail up via HTTPS or, with a Blackberry, you run your own Blackberry Enterprise Server (I don't know what happens with the free "BES Express" package", your email is protected from snooping over the mobile connection.<br>
<br>Obviously, if you use a service provider email account (including consumer Blackberry packages) or a non-encrypted connection, then your mail can be snooped by the provider (obviously) and, potentially, by people with radio intercept capabilities. <br>
<br>Of course, if the email comes to you clear-text, it can be snooped (the non-triviality of fishing your particular email out of the millions not withstanding) before it gets into your protected environment. There is a general, albeit low-scale still, move towards encrypting mail server to mail server comms (now using the STARTTLS SMTP extension, rather than GPG/PGPing sensitive things up like the more paranoid of us have from some time.)<br>
<br>M.<br></div></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Matthew Pemble<br><br><br>